The Times of India 30.12.2014
Door-to-door garbage collection from January 31
NAVI
MUMBAI: The civic body has decided to implement its door-to-door garbage
collection plan from January 31. But the solid waste management
department, under civic chief Abasaheb Jarhad’s supervision, is yet to
zero in on the first node from where the system will be started.
“It has been decided that the garbage collection in commercial and
residential areas will start in phases from January 31. The process will
start in a new node every fortnight and, in two months, the entire Navi
Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) region will have a systematic waste
disposal scheme in place,” said deputy municipal commissioner Dr
Babasaheb Rajale.
A total of 119 vehicles, comprising
compactors, dumpers and small tippers, will be used to transport the
waste collected from all over the city.
The tippers will
facilitate waste transportation from various internal areas to the
compactors, which will take the garbage to the landfill site for further
processing.
“The contractor and civic officials are conducting
meetings to decide upon a foolproof waste collection and disposal
system,” added Rajale.
He added that the contractor has to
ensure that not a single society or commercial establishment’s waste
collection is missed and, at the same time, the tonne of waste required
by the contractor has to be met. “Say, the contractor has to collect 10
tonnes of waste from sector 17 of Vashi, then there has to be clear
insight into the nature and amount of waste the particular sector will
generate and the manner in which it will be collected,” explained
Rajale.
The proposal for collection and transportation of
garbage at Rs 1,700 per metric tonne was cleared by the general body in
early December.
