The Times of India 29.10.2010
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Lucknow: The Lucknow Municipal Corporation ( LMC) gave its official nod to collection of door-to-door collection of garbage by a private agency in 25 wards of the state capital.
The agency, in the first phase, would cover four zones -- zone 2, 3, 4, and 6. Zone-1 comprising Hazratganj, interestingly, has been left out. Municipal commissioner S K Singh said that the agency has been asked to work out a detailed strategy, whereby it would distribute two bags -- one for degradable and the other for non-degradable -- in each household of the 25 wards.
The agency, he said, has already started its operations in Khadra which was hit by disease outbreak. Significantly, no bags were distributed by the agency in the locality. Singh maintained that the agency was asked to begin its work at the earnest. "They would surely distribute bags which is mandatory,'' he said.
Some of the wards which have been taken up in the first phase include: Rajiv Gandhi 1 and 2, comprising parts of Gomtinagar, Paper Mill Colony ward in Zone-4; Rajajipuram, Hardeen Ram Nagar ward, Kunwar Jyoti Prasad ward, Labour Colony ward, Ambedkar Nagar ward and Malviya Nagar in Zone-2; Ayodhya Das ward, comprising Khadra, Faizullahganj 1 and 2, Triveni Nagar in zone-3; and Bhawaniganj, Garhipir Khan Ward, Maulana Kalbe Abid, Amberganj and Chowk Kaliji in zone 6.
Significantly, a charge applicable on the house owners is yet to be finalised, even though the department of urban development is mulling over on a figure of anything between Rs 60 and Rs 65. Besides this, the agency would also be given a `tipping charge' -- charge to be paid by Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) per tonne.
