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.