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A step towards ensuring bin-less cities

By Jaideep Shenoy

MANGALORE NOV. 15. Garbage clearance is a major problem faced by urban civic bodies. Shortage of resources, manpower, and lack of political will have compounded the problem.

The Karnataka Urban Development Coastal Management Project (KUDCEMP), financed by the Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC), is a step in this direction. The primary task is to set up a residents' welfare association at the ward-level in each of the 10 coastal towns under the project.

The Mangalore MLA, N. Yogish Bhat, inaugurated the Kodialbail Residents' Welfare Association here on Friday. The main task of the association, which will be set up in other wards of the Mangalore City Corporation also, is to collect waste and send it to a transit point for disposal. The Deputy Director of KUIDFC, J.R. Lobo, who is also the former Commissioner of the Mangalore City Corporation, said the main aim of establishing associations was to ensure greater accountability in the effective disposal of waste. He told The Hindu that it was the primary responsibility of the people to dispose of waste generated by them.

Under KUDCEMP norms, it was mandatory to ensure bin less cities in the near future. The KUIDFC would provide funds and infrastructure to the associations to set up common transit points to dump waste collected by them. Each association would be provided with an auto-tipper to collect and transport waste to the transit point, and from there, it would be carried to pre-designated landfill sites, he said.

Mr. Lobo said KUIDFC would provide maintenance grants for the first six months to the associations which would have to bear the cost on their own thereafter. There were plans to conduct training programmes for the associations in segregating waste for its easy disposal and recycling.

He said KUIDFC had taken help from the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project in organising the associations. The corporation health workers and authorities had also helped it in this regard.

On the formation of the association, Mr. Lobo said the corporator of the ward would be its honorary president. Members of the association would elect a working president from amongst them and set up a governing body to ensure its smooth functioning.

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