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Corporation hopeful of starting door-to-door waste collection next month

— PHOTO: S. SIVA SARAVANAN

FOR A CLEAN CITY: New garbage bins for segregation of waste kept at the Coimbatore Corporation’s North Zone Office in the city.

COIMBATORE: With the arrival of pushcarts and bins, the Coimbatore Corporation is hopeful of beginning next month the much awaited door-to-door collection of segregated garbage in the city.

The Corporation’s Rs.96-crore Integrated Solid Waste Management Scheme has many components that will have to work jointly to create a clean city and safe disposal facilities. But, the final part of turning waste into manure or disposing it of through landfill depends on the first component: primary collection.

For this part, the Corporation is procuring pushcarts and bins to store separately the biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste. Each house will be provided with two bins – one green and other white. The biodegradable waste should be stored in green bin and the non-biodegradable in the white one.

“We may be able to begin door-to-door collection of waste in September,” says Mayor R. Venkatachalam. The Corporation will educate the people on how to go about the task of segregation. “We will involve non-Governmental organisations in spreading awareness. We will also distribute handbills that explain this method,” says the Mayor.

The Corporation has now received 1,530 of the 1,980 pushcarts it has been sanctioned. It has also received 35,000 green bins and an equal number of white ones. The total number of bins ordered is 2.29 lakh.

“The officials in charge of the scheme under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission are in Hyderabad for a meeting. After they return, we will find out how many pushcarts and bins each of the four zones in the Corporation requires,” the Mayor says.

The distribution of the bins and awareness drives will also be discussed with the leaders of the parties in the Corporation Council.

As for the ones already received, the Mayor says the distribution to the wards under each zone has begun. The first batch of pushcarts and bins were given away on Wednesday by South Zone Chairman P. Pynthamil.

On getting the people to cooperate, the Mayor says the door number of the houses and the signature of the owners will be obtained while the bins are handed over.

No one can dump garbage on the road by claiming that the bins had not been given. The zone sanitary officers and sanitary inspectors will be held accountable for any lapses.

“Our aim is to create a clean city. The people should cooperate,” the Mayor says.

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