MC to tighten solid waste implementation rules

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, August 25

The Municipal Corporation is planning to strictly implement the municipal solid waste rules in the city. Under the rules, several units, including hotels, restaurants and marriage palaces, which generate more than 50 kg of garbage everyday, have to make arrangement for the onsite composting of garbage on their premises.

Schools, colleges, hotels, hospitals, housing development societies and industrial units will now have to dispose of garbage on their own by installing a bio-compost unit on their premises.

If they will not do it, the units would have to face action under the municipal solid waste rules, 2016. It is learnt that at present, most of these units are disposing of their garbage at the MC dumping ground due to which city is facing the sanitation problem. According to the new rules, it is mandatory for such units to dispose of their garbage on their own.

To streamline the sanitation and garbage disposal system, the MC has now given time to commercial establishments till August 31 to make the arrangement for garbage disposal on their own on the premises or they need to hire an agency in this regard.

Besides, if the units fail to comply with the rules, they can pact an agreement with the civic body. Under it, the MC will lift their garbage everyday and the corporation will charge for it.

To implement the rules strictly, MC Commissioner Bikramjit Singh Shergill recently held a meeting with hotel, restaurant, marriage palace and dhaba owners. At the meeting, he had sought the information regarding arrangements in place for garbage disposal.

Shergill said, “The MC is making a new arrangement for bulk garbage generator in the city. Under it, commercial units which are producing more than 50 kg of garbage everyday have to dispose it of on their own on their premises. These units have to disclose the garbage generation capacity as well.”

The MC Commissioner added that they have issued a notice to all bulk generators and told them to make arrangements for garbage disposal on their own by August 31. He said after that, strict action would be taken against the unit which would not comply with the norms.

“There are 59 bulk garbage generator units in the city. But, the list is increasing day by day as more units are being added to it. Hospitals have hired a Ludhiana-based firm which disposes bio-medical waste, while some have signed an agreement with MC for garbage disposal. There are units which have installed an on-spot compost-making unit on their premises,” he added.