Vehicles to carry out door to door seregation of garbage in Chandigarh.
Vehicles to carry out door to door seregation of garbage in Chandigarh.
Chandigarh, June 4 ( H.S.) :- Rajesh Kumar, Mayor and K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh today flagged off 10 vehicles to carry out the door to door collection of waste in segregated manner at village Sarangpur. S.K. Jain, Additional Commissioner, Hardeep Singh, councilor and other prominent persons of the area were also present during the launch.
The Mayor informed that the 10 vehicles will collect door to door waste in segregated manner i.e. wet and dry separately in different cabins from near about 450 houses from village Sarangpur and nearly 594 houses in village Khudda Jassu.
He said that the Municipal Corporation has purchased 99 vehicles of 3.2 cubic meter capacity to carry out the door to door collection of domestic waste in segregated manner. The dry and wet waste will be given by residents separately and will be collected in different compartments of the vehicles.
The Mayor said that 55 vehicles will be used for the 13 villages recently transferred to the Municipal Corporation and the remaining 44 vehicles will be used for the unattended areas of the city which are not being catered by private waste collectors. Remaining villages will be taken up for collection of segregated waste through these vehicles within next few days, added the Mayor.
