Panchkula MC to purchase 100 carts for waste collection

Sanjay Bumbroo
Tribune News Service
Panchkula, June 19

The Panchkula Municipal Corporation will soon purchase 100 carts with two boxes each for collection of door-to-door segregated waste in the city. The garbage collection drive will be launched in the first week of July.

There are more than 1.24 lakh households in the municipal limits in Panchkula, Kalka and Pinjore areas of the district and the MC had already distributed 48,000 blue and green bins to the residents.

There are 29 wards in the municipal limits of the Panchkula Municipal Corporation, including two in Pinjore and four in Kalka town.

At present, the Municipal Corporation has only 29 carts which have been pressed into service to collect wet and dry garbage from three wards of the city.

As a part of pilot project, the MC had initiated segregation of garbage in wards 15, 16 and 17, wherein the residents had been asked to segregate garbage at household level. In case there is violation, strict action will be taken by the authorities.

MC Executive Officer Jarnail Singh said the tender for the carts would be floated on June 24 after which the authorities would have over three-fold carts for the district. He said the project would commence from Panchkula, but in later phases it would be implemented in Kalka and Pinjore as well.

He said in case the residents failed to segregate wet and dry garbage, they would be given warning at the first place and if they failed again, heavy fines would be imposed on them.

Sharing the awareness plans, Jarnail said carts collecting the garbage would have speakers installed in it to make residents aware about the wet and dry waste.