As the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) is gearing to launch the door-to-door collection of segregated garbage in the city from December 22, waste collectors demanded that 50% of the fine collected from defaulters be paid to them.
They made the demands in a meeting with MC joint commissioner Anil Garg, sanitation committee chairman Rajesh Kalia and medical officer of health Dr Amrit Warring. Dr Warring said, “We have heard them and will take up their demands with senior officers. We are already registering them with us as drivers and helpers in the twin-bin hopper vehicles.”
UT administrator VP Singh Badnore will inaugurate the exercise, which will be carried out in three phases to cover all parts of city. Residents will have to put segregated garbage in twin-bins vehicles designed to segregate wet and dry waste. Until now, independent garbage collectors were lifting mixed waste from houses and commercial spaces.
In first phase that will commence of December 22, garbage from sector 1 to 30 will be covered. In the first phase, around 115 vehicles will be used. These have already reached the city and their technical evaluation has been done. A total of 392 vehicles have to be purchased by December end.
From January 1, other sectors and colonies will be covered in phase 2, while the final phase will be launched in Manimajra on January 7.
Residents will have to pay user charges to the MC and will also be penalised for giving mixed waste. The new segregated garbage collection system will take off ahead of the upcoming Swachh Survekshan.
