CHANDIGARH: The second group of municipal councillors is all set to submit a study tour report recommending the "Kutumbh Shree" system, a Trivandrum-based initiative, which employs poor women to collect garbage from house to house. Presently functioning in Trivandrum, it collects garbage in a segregated manner so that it can be recycled completely.

"The house owners will have to segregate their garbage on their own, bio-degradable and non-bio-degradable garbage in separate containers, then only it will be collected. It ensures proper disposal in Trivandrum and we hope to replicate it here," said Dr AP Sanwaria, a nominated councillor.

In Trivandrum, the group has been provided with basic infrastructure and the system is in place from villages to state headquarters, he added.

SAD councillor and former mayor of the Chandigarh municipal corporation Harjinder Kaur said, "Kutumbh Shree got best disposal award recently for their remarkable work and we are going to recommend this system here strongly."

Significantly, group members earn two to three thousand rupees per month and ensure hundred per cent recycling of garbage.

The councilors have also recommended four-tier audit system in civic body to bring in more transparency and fix responsibility, accountability of every employee.

The group is also expected to submit their report over educational and health system of Trivandrum, where civic body only provides infrastructure and rest of the things are taken care of experts.