The Hindu 22.12.2014
Garbage containers will be removed: MCC Commissioner
Corporation had purchased over 250 containers earlier
The Directorate of Urban Development has issued a circular to
corporations and municipalities to stop buying containers and to
withdraw containers that are in use.— PHOTO: M.A. SRIRAM
The Directorate of Urban Development has instructed all
city corporations, and city and town municipalities not to buy
containers to collect garbage, as well as dumper placer vehicles. It
also instructed civic bodies to disuse containers and dumper placers
which had already been purchased.
The directorate
further directed corporations and other municipal bodies to shift
garbage collected from primary sources through house-to-house collection
to garbage trucks and send it to decentralised garbage processing units
or landfill sites.
Nuisance
It
said that people would not put garbage properly into the containers and
civic bodies would not lift the garbage periodically, creating a
nuisance to passersby and people near the containers. Hence, the
directorate found that garbage containers was not an ideal solution. In
accordance with a directorate issued recently, the Mysore City
Corporation had decided not to purchase containers hereafter nor to
repair damaged containers.
C.G. Betsurmath, Commissioner of Mysuru City Corporation, told
The Hindu
here today that the Corporation had purchased over 250 containers
sometime ago and they were placed at certain points in the city.
He
said that many of them, which were in a ramshackle condition, were
being withdrawn and in another three to four months there would be no
garbage container in any part of the city. The Commissioner said that
the corporation had already commenced collecting segregated garbage from
households, hotels and restaurants and other shops.
The
Corporation took up a drive to create awareness among people about the
need to segregate waste. It had distributed over three lakh dust bins to
BPL families and to people living in different slums in Mysuru city, he
said.
However, containers in many parts of the city
are overflowing with filth and garbage. The Corporation had spent crores
of rupees to buy containers few years ago.
