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Garbage disposal: SHGs to get subsidy to buy vehicles

BANGALORE: In a bid to make cities and towns dustbin free, the State Government has decided to provide 50 per cent subsidy to women self-help groups (SHGs) to purchase vehicles and pushcarts for collection and transportation of solid waste from households, Minister for Municipalities and Urban Local Bodies Suresh Kumar has said.

He was speaking at the inauguration of a workshop on solid waste management for environment engineers of urban local bodies here on Monday.

The women SHGs could also avail themselves of credit from cooperative institutions at the interest rate of three per cent to buy goods vehicles and pushcarts. A sum of Rs. 20 was being collected every month from each household by SHGs for daily collection of garbage, Mr. Suresh Kumar said.

Of the 128 urban local bodies (ULBs), 83 had identified landfills for disposal and management of solid as well as other forms of waste. But no land was available in Gulbarga, Tumkur and Davangere cities and garbage was piling up on the roads, he said.

The department would take steps to ensure scientific management of solid waste in all the urban local bodies by this year-end, the Minister said.

Training camps would be organised from December to March next to create awareness about the management of waste among elected representatives, sweepers, officials of the urban local bodies and environment engineers. Environment engineers of urban local bodies would be asked to concentrate on management and disposal of waste by roping in non-governmental organisations and SHGs, the Minister said.

Mr. Suresh Kumar said that people should cooperate with those collecting garbage for effective implementation of the “Nirmala Karnataka” scheme. Most of the urban local bodies had launched door-to-door campaign for daily collection and disposal of garbage, he said.

A.N. Yellappa Reddy, trustee, Bangalore Parisara Trust, said that the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board did not have basic facilities such as equipment to burn plastic waste.

The healthcare expenses of those residing in cities and towns was going up owing to pollution and environmental hazards. Contamination of groundwater and air pollution were causing health problems, he said.

Officials of urban local bodies spoke about the difficulties they faced in the collection and disposal of waste in small towns.

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