Sanitation exigency: 58,701 MT trash transported to Bandhwari in July
Kulwinder Sandhu
Tribune News Service
Gurugram, July 31
Under the Solid Waste Environment Exigency Programme (SWEEP), 58,701 metric tonnes of garbage was lifted from secondary collection points and transported to the Bandhwari landfill in July.
Gurugram residents had voiced their concerns over the deteriorated sanitary conditions, due to which a special campaign was launched to ensure cleanliness in the city. The exigency programme is also aimed at establishing a sustainable waste management model to prevent sanitation crisis in the future, assert officials of the Municipal Corporation Gurugram (MCG).
According to Nijesh Kumar, Executive Engineer (Swachh Bharat Mission) of the Gurugram MC, “Under this special cleanliness campaign, work has been done on a war footing to clean areas that fall under the jurisdiction of the MC.”
“On one hand, the cleanliness system of roads, streets, green belts, markets and other public places has been improved, while, on the other hand, garbage has been collected from vulnerable points and secondary collection points and sent to the disposal plant at Bandhwari for its scientific disposal” he added.
Private agencies were invited by publishing expression of interest through newspapers and ensuring complete transparency. The work of garbage collection was assigned to the agencies at the rate of Rs 390 per tonne. These agencies collected garbage from secondary garbage collection point and transported it to Bandhwari, where they also ensured its scientific management and disposal.
The MCG has also invited other agencies, saying if they could collect and manage garbage at Bandhwari at a rate less than the prescribed rate of Rs 390 per tonne, they could join the civic body at any time.
Kumar said the Gurugram MC would pay Rs 2.28 crore to the garbage lifting agencies for the solid waste collected, lifted and transported to the Bandhwari landfill in July. However, the agencies would pay for the use of dumpers acquired by the Regional Transport Authority under SWEEP.
