Sandeep Rana

Sandeep Rana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 2

With most collectors not willing to work as drivers in waste-lifting vehicles of the Municipal Corporation, the civic body’s garbage segregation at source and collection campaign is struggling to find its feet.

Earlier, the MC had to limit its second phase launch to 12 southern sectors (Sector 31 to 38 and 46 to 48) rather than pan-city. Even in these sectors where the campaign was launched yesterday, carts are still picking waste at several places.

“No vehicle came today to lift garbage. However, private garbage collectors performed this job as usual,” said Kidar Nath Sharma, president, Residents’ Welfare Federation, Sector 46-D.

“Waste was picked through carts as usual. I have come to know that drivers working in MC vehicles deployed for collecting domestic waste went on a strike due to non-payment of their salary for the last month. The issue, it is learnt, now stands resolved and the vehicles will be on the job from tomorrow,” said JP Yadav, president, RWS, Sector 37-A. Similar was the feedback in Sector 35.

RS Kaura, president, RWA, Sector 32, said both private waste collectors and vehicles came separately to collect waste. Sunita Sharma,

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