GHMC is experimenting with the idea of community resource persons in
order to take the solid waste management in the city to next level. The
corporation has recently recruited a large number of community resource
persons (CRPs) to spread the awareness about the importance of waste
segregation among households.

A total of 3,600 CRPs will cover
some 15 lakh households in the city and spread the message of waste
segregation and against indiscriminate dumping of waste on roads and in
storm water drains. Each CRP has to visit 600 households for which she
will be paid an honorarium of Rs. 10,000 based on her performance.

Accountability
will be ensured by way of paying the remuneration only after the
sanitation staff of the area concerned certify the performance of the
CRP. The sanitation worker who runs the garbage auto-trolley will have
to confirm that more households are handing over the garbage to them
rather than throw it on roads, and more are segregating the wet and dry
waste than before, GHMC Commissioner B. Janardhan Reddy said.

Large
scale recruitment of CRPs followed the success achieved in the first
two spells as part of the ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign. In the first phase,
eighty-five CRPs were recruited to cover 52,000 households, and in the
second, 153 more were recruited to educate the residents living by the
storm water drains not to throw garbage into the drains.