Tamil Nadu - Madurai   

Garbage dumper placer vehicles put into service

— Photo: G. Moorthy

sanitary move: Mayor G. Thenmozhi inducting the new vehicles in the city on Thursday. Corporation Commissioner D.J. Dhinakkaren looks on.

MADURAI: The Corporation inducted eight new garbage dumper placer vehicles into service on Thursday.They were part of a batch of 47 vehicles ordered by the Corporation. The local body has received 10 vehicles. Each vehicle will have to make 10 trips in two shifts from 6 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. and from 2.30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

It has been fitted with two cast iron bins with a capacity to carry 2.5 tonnes of garbage. These bins will supplement the old ones. Unlike the old bins, the new ones have lids to prevent garbage from being exposed.

The local body has also placed orders for 570 stainless steel bins under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.

K. Sakthivel, Superintending Engineer, said that the city generated 450 tonnes of garbage every day and it was dumped at the compost yard in Vellakkal near Avaniapuram.

The Corporation had signed a memorandum of understanding with a Delhi-based company for an effective solid waste management programme.

The company would implement the plan in about 18 months. It would separate the assured quantity of 450 tonnes of garbage into degradable and non-degradable ones at a comprehensive composite yard to be developed at an estimated cost of Rs.57 crore, he said.

After separation, the waste would be dumped in the sanitary landfill site in a scientific manner, he said and added that already the Corporation had sent a proposal to acquire two landfill sites of 110 acres of land at Vellakkal for this purpose, where the company had also agreed to spread 14 lakh tonnes of accumulated waste.

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