Amritsar set to be divided into sectors for streamlining sanitation work

Amritsar, June 12

The Amritsar Municipal Corporation (AMC) has decided to divide the city into sectors to improve sanitation and keep a check on the door-to-door garbage lifting properly. The chief sanitary inspectors and sanitary inspectors would keep a check on their respective sectors.

Hardeep Singh, Joint Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, on Sunday held a meeting with officials of the Health wing, Operation and Maintenance (O&M) and Horticulture wings and asked to chalk out a plan to improve sanitation in the city.

The MC has been getting regular complaints regarding the door-to-door collection of garbage. The company has not been lifting the garbage on a daily basis. There are some areas in the city where the company collects garbage twice in a week. The MC verified the vehicles of the company recently and found that the vehicles are not in a good condition to work efficiently.

Around 60 vehicles out of the 342 are worn out and 45 are defunct.

“After dividing the city into sectors, it would be easy to keep a check on the movement of the garbage collection vehicles of the solid waste management company. We will provide separate numbers to the vehicles on every route. We are planning to streamline door-to-door collection by dividing the city into sectors. We need door-to-door collection of garbage every day without any miss. If the solid waste management company would not follow it, we will replace the firm,” said Hardeep Singh, a PCS.

The Joint Commissioner also asked the officials of the Operation and Maintenance wing to provide water, treated at Sewerage Treatment Plants (STP), to the Horticulture Department for green belts, tress, gardens and central verges of roads. The departments concerned have been asked to submit a plan of sectors and arrangements till Monday evening.