The Hindu 02.09.2009
Bidar CMC gets auto-tippers for garbage collection
Staff Correspondent
New addition: The president of the Bidar City Municipal Council, Rita Fernandes, inaugurating the auto-tippers at a function in Bidar on Tuesday.
Bidar: The president of the Bidar City Municipal Council (CMC), Rita Fernandes, and Bidar CMC Commissioner S.R. Garwad on Tuesday released five auto-tippers for collection of garbage in Bidar city.
The new auto-tippers are an addition to the existing pushcarts which are used for door-to-door garbage collection under the Nirmala Nagar Yojane in Bidar city.
Speaking to presspersons after the release of auto-tippers on the CMC premises, Mr. Garwad said the five auto-tippers would be used to collect garbage from ward nos. 6, 7, 15, 21 and 29 in Bidar city. Later, a few more auto-tippers would be added to cover all the 35 wards falling under the jurisdiction of CMC in Bidar.
Mr. Garwad said the auto-tippers would collect garbage from each of the wards and dump it into a container placed at every ward of the city. From the container, the garbage would be transported through trucks to dumping yard located at Sultanapur on the outskirts of the city.
Environment Engineer of the CMC Abhaykumar said the push-carts cover 34 wards of the city except ward number 27. Garbage collection is entrusted to a Self-Help Group (SHG) in each of the wards. In ward no. 27, an SHG which was engaged in garbage collection left mid-way and the collection of garbage has been hit.
Mr. Abhaykumar said one push-cart collects garbage from 150 houses in a ward. Residents of each of the houses have to pay Rs. 20 a month to the SHG engaged in collection and dumping of garbage.
Likewise, he said, commercial shops have to pay Rs. 30 a month; if the commercial shop is spread between 5,000 and 10,000 square feet, it will be charged Rs. 100 a month. If the commercial shop is on a 10,000 square feet area, it will be charged Rs. 300 a month. However, a function hall has to pay Rs. 200 for every function organised on its premises.
Manohar Dande, councillor representing ward no. 5 in the CMC told The Hindu that the Nirmala Nagar Yojane was not being properly implemented in Bidar city. The CMC had handed-over the responsibility to collect garbage from households to SHGs but the SHGs had failed in their work.
Mr. Dande added that the SHGs mainly collected plastic bags from the garbage and left most of the garbage on roads. The SHG members sell the plastic bags collected from garbage, he alleged.
