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NDMC approves new garbage disposal scheme

Manisha Jha

The Rs.17.6 lakh project will be implemented in 51 places initially through NGOs, RWAs and NDMC staff

Volunteers to be properly dressed with police verification and I-cards while collecting garbage
‘Chintan’ to sign MoU with RWA to get some remuneration for the service from every household

NEW DELHI: To combat indiscriminate throwing of garbage by residents and make the most of the Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2000, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has given the go-ahead for door-to-door garbage collection in some residential colonies of the Capital on a pilot basis. The practice will later be replicated in the entire NDMC area depending on its success.

The decision was taken at a special meeting of the Council. “Though door-to-door garbage collection in the NDMC area is being done at 51 places through non-government organisations, residents’ welfare associations as well as some staff of the NDMC, it is not as per the enumerated guidelines in MSW Rules 2000. However, through this pilot project we plan to implement it in a scientific and proper way,” said an NDMC official.

Areas listed

The areas to be included in the pilot scheme are Kaka Nagar, Bapa Nagar, Bharti Nagar, Rabindra Nagar, Moti Bagh, South Avenue and North Avenue MPs’ Flats and Meena Bagh Flats. The Rs.17.6 lakh project will be implemented by an NGO, “Chintan”, in partnership with the NDMC. The NGO will carry out the activity in selected residential colonies in these areas through its sanitation volunteers. These volunteers will be properly dressed, have police verification and display their identity cards while going from door-to-door to collect the garbage.

For its part, the NDMC will provide every household two bins — one blue and one green — to segregate biodegradable and non-biodegradable garbage.

These bins will be provided free of cost initially, but the subsequent responsibility of their maintenance would rest on the householder.

The NDMC will also provide sufficient tricycle rickshaws to the NGO in keeping with the requirement of the area. Once segregated and deposited in the designated bins, the garbage will be collected by the volunteers and taken in municipal vehicles separately for final disposal at the garbage stations.

To reduce the financial burden of the scheme, the NGO will sign a memorandum of understanding with the RWA to get some remuneration for this service which shall not exceed Rs.50 per household.

No disturbance

According to NDMC, the present system of garbage collection will not be disturbed by the new scheme which would be carried on as an additional activity.

To make people aware of this new plan, representatives from the RWAs and Merchant Traders Associations were invited by the NDMC to an interactive session in July which was addressed by the Chief Minister and the Council’s chairperson and members.

During the session, the representatives were categorically informed about their role and responsibilities in the programme along with those of the NGO and the NDMC.

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