Indain Express 14.12.2009
PCB mulls door-to-door waste collection in cantonment area
The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has decided to streamline the garbage collection system in the cantonment area through door-to-door waste collection.
A committee under the PCB Chief Health Superintendent has been set up to formulate a detailed plan for the same within 20 days.
The decision to appoint a committee was taken in the general body meeting attended by PCB president Brig Rajbir Singh, Chief Executive Officer DK Malik and other elected and nominated members. It will be incorporated with the ‘Ghanta Gadi’ project for garbage collection in which special vehicles were planned to go from house to house to collect garbage every day.
“The committee will look into various aspects of waste collection and also various ways to streamline it.
The viability of the project has to be scrutinised.
The committee will determine the collection process of door-to-door degradable and biodegradable wastes and local collection points.
The route and timing of collection also has to be finalised,” said Brig Rajbir Singh, president, PCB.
He suggested in the meeting that there should be a public stake in the project so that people would be more responsible and have a serious outlook towards the project. “The board can charge the nominal monthly amount from each house for the collection of waste. The Pune Municipal Corporation is already following this method,” he said.
About 14,500 tonnes of waste is generated annually within the PCB limit and a large chunk of it is now dumped in a 27-acre land that belongs to the Board near the Hadapsar Industrial Estate after the closure of the vermicompost plant.
PCB CEO DK Malik had earlier said that the vermicompost plant will be operational by March and Rs 8 lakh has been sanctioned for its renovation. At full capacity, the plant can treat up to 40 tonnes of biodegradable waste on a day-to-day basis.
Meanwhile, the meeting also discussed the constitution of school management committees in all schools run by the PCB. For schools having 400 or more children, the total number of members will be eight.
Schools having 150-400 children will have six members and for schools with less than 150 students, there will be four members. Chairman of the committee will be one of the members of the school management committee.
The tenure of members including chairman will be three years from the date of nomination. The committee will meet once in a month in the respective schools.
