The Times of India 24.08.2012
Nashik Municipal Corporation likely to decentralize garbage collection services
NASHIK: After a heated discussion in the general body meeting on
Thursday regarding clearance of garbage in the city by ghantagadi
services operated by a contractor, the NMC is likely to decentralize
garbage collection by appointing prabhagwise ghantagadi contractors.
Mayor Yatin Wagh, while concluding the deliberation on the issue, asked municipal commissioner Sanjay Khandare to draft a revised proposal. Corporators cutting across party lines expressed anger over shoddy garbage disposal by the existing contractor. The proposal to float fresh tenders amounting to Rs11 crore to collect garbage across the city through ghantagadis and place it at the fertilizer project at Pathardi was tabled . Sanjay Khandare said, "We will have to appoint 61 contractors in 61 prabhags (each prabhag has two corporators) if we appoint prabhagwise contactors. Each prabhag is geographically small or large. Hence we will have to study the needs of each prabhag in terms of number of ghantagadis and labourers."
The opposition leader in the House, Sudhakar Badgujar of the Shiv Sena said, "The NMC has its own 121 ghantagadis and the diesel to run these are also supplied by the NMC. Only the labourers are appointed by the contractor. At this juncture, it will cost around Rs 5 crore if NMC starts garbage collection on its own."
Shailesh Dhage of the Shiv Sena said, "NMC has committed a mistake by appointing only a single contractor for the whole city and they have no control over the contractor. Hence, ghantagadi contractors should be appointed at the prabhag level."
The standing committee of the NMC, during its meeting on August 13, had extended the contract of garbage collection from all six divisions of the civic body by two months. The contract was to end on August 22 this year.
Mayor Yatin Wagh, while concluding the deliberation on the issue, asked municipal commissioner Sanjay Khandare to draft a revised proposal. Corporators cutting across party lines expressed anger over shoddy garbage disposal by the existing contractor. The proposal to float fresh tenders amounting to Rs11 crore to collect garbage across the city through ghantagadis and place it at the fertilizer project at Pathardi was tabled . Sanjay Khandare said, "We will have to appoint 61 contractors in 61 prabhags (each prabhag has two corporators) if we appoint prabhagwise contactors. Each prabhag is geographically small or large. Hence we will have to study the needs of each prabhag in terms of number of ghantagadis and labourers."
The opposition leader in the House, Sudhakar Badgujar of the Shiv Sena said, "The NMC has its own 121 ghantagadis and the diesel to run these are also supplied by the NMC. Only the labourers are appointed by the contractor. At this juncture, it will cost around Rs 5 crore if NMC starts garbage collection on its own."
Shailesh Dhage of the Shiv Sena said, "NMC has committed a mistake by appointing only a single contractor for the whole city and they have no control over the contractor. Hence, ghantagadi contractors should be appointed at the prabhag level."
The standing committee of the NMC, during its meeting on August 13, had extended the contract of garbage collection from all six divisions of the civic body by two months. The contract was to end on August 22 this year.
