The Hindu 22.05.2013
Civic body gets government’s nod for plan to privatise garbage collection
The Erode Corporation has received approval from the
State Government for its plan to privatise the garbage collection in
select wards in the town.
The civic body has worked
out the plan as it faces serious shortage of sanitary workers, which has
adversely affected the garbage collection process in many parts of the
town.
According to the plan, the process of collecting waste in 16 wards will be handed over to a private agency.
The
civic body has already selected four wards from each zone – wards 2, 3,
6 and 8 from Zone I, wards 17, 26, 28 and 30 from Zone II, wards 31,
32, 33 and 34 from Zone III and wards 46, 50, 55 and 56 from Zone IV.
The
civic administration will call for tenders and select an agency after
taking the approval from the Corporation council, sources here say.
Once
implemented, the private agency will collect the garbage at the
doorsteps and segregate before handing it over to the civic workers for
transporting it to the dump yard at Vendipalayam.
The town generates more than 150 tonnes of garbage, including a large amount of plastic and polythene waste, every day.
Residents
and commercial establishments dump huge amount of waste on the streets
as the civic body is not able to implement door-to-door waste collection
in all the parts of the town due to labour shortage. The garbage in
areas remains uncollected for days together.
The
civic officials hope that privatisation will help streamline the garbage
collection and improve the sanitary conditions significantly.
The process of waste collection in other wards will also be privatised in a phased manner, civic officials say.
