The Times of India 01.02.2011
Civic move to achieve a clean, green Salt Lake
KOLKATA: The Bidhannagar Municipality has launched its Green City Clean City programme in Salt Lake.
Under the programme, the staff engaged in waste management will collect
the daily garbage in the township and dump it directly in Mollar bheri,
minimising the use of vats as far as possible.
The Green City
Clean City initiative has been taken with the plan to completely abolish
the vat collection system. The workers engaged in sweeping the streets
and collecting the daily accumulated garbage have been provided with
gloves, masks and uniforms. The workers will clean up all the roads in
the township.
“It is a new system that we are now experimenting
with and trying to fully implement for the entire township. Apart from
the existing set-up, we are bringing five more garbage collecting trucks
very soon,” said chairman-in-council (waste management) member Debasis
Jana. The civic authorities will spend about Rs 15 lakh for the project.
The authorities have in fact increased the budgetary allocations
implementing the scheme.
The workers have been divided in such a
way that each of them will be looking after some particular lanes
inside the blocks. The project has been launched from AE and BE blocks
and will further spread to other areas of the township. The waste is
collected from all the individual residential houses and there are
separate bins to dump specific types of garbage. The garbage on the
roads is also collected and put into the bins. After mass collection,
the garbage is then dumped in the trucks that goes directly to the
Mollar bheri dumping ground.
Civic officials said it will take
some time for the project to be fully operational across the entire
township. “We are trying to remove the vat system in this way which is
more systematic in nature,” said a civic official. The old waste
collection system through the vats will be steadily phased out.
Among the other long-term plans of the civic authorities is to carry
out tree plantation programmes, beautification and maintenance of the
islands and the green verges that falls in between the blocks and to
switch to solar power for the lighting of the islands and for the
streetlights, particularly for the added areas.
