KANPUR: The door to door collection of garbage, a Solid Waste Management Scheme (SWM) of Kanpur Nagar Nigam is turning out to be a flop show with delay in its opening date. The project which is already delayed by two months, was scheduled to start from October 2 and is now expected to start from January 2010.

A 56.23 crore SWM Project under Jawarharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme is being set up at Bhau Singh, Panki to recycle 1,250 tonne of garbage produced in the city daily. With a motive to keep the city trash free, it was decided to start door to door collection of garbage that subsequently has failed to provide the desired result on scheduled time.

As per the project, equipments for the collection of trash would be supplied by KNN to the private operator. The private operator would in turn collect the revenue as a user charge from the household, which has not yet been decided.

Under the scheme, the total income of private operator would be Rs 23.49 crore from the user charges. However, KNN and the concerned private firm has not yet signed an agreement on the monthly amount to be charged from the locals, another reason for delay in the work.

According to KNN officials, delay in construction of processing plant and sanitary land fill has postponed the date of door to door collection. Health officer, KNN, Dr LK Tiwari while talking to TOI said, "dumping site is still not ready. Nearly 10 percent of the work is still remaining which will be over by December. The collection work would begin from January 2010, he added.

The main aim of the project is to utilise the garbage which after segregation and recycling would be used as an organic fertiliser, concrete cement blocks and would also produce coal-like-fuel which would help in generating electricity.