GHMC is experimenting with the idea of community resource persons in order to take the solid waste management in the city to next level. The corporation has recently recruited a large number of community resource persons (CRPs) to spread the awareness about the importance of waste segregation among households.
A total of 3,600 CRPs will cover some 15 lakh households in the city and spread the message of waste segregation and against indiscriminate dumping of waste on roads and in storm water drains. Each CRP has to visit 600 households for which she will be paid an honorarium of ₹10,000 based on her performance.
Accountability
Accountability will be ensured by way of paying the remuneration only after the sanitation staff of the area concerned certify the performance of the CRP. The sanitation worker who runs the garbage auto-trolley will have to confirm that more households are handing over the garbage to them rather than throw it on roads, and more are segregating the wet and dry waste than before, GHMC Commissioner B. Janardhan Reddy said.
Large scale recruitment of CRPs followed the success achieved in the first two spells as part of the ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign. In the first phase, eighty-five CRPs were recruited to cover 52,000 households, and in the second, 153 more were recruited to educate the residents living by the storm water drains not to throw garbage into the drains and instead hand it over to the garbage collectors. Apart from the 3,600 recruited by GHMC, more resource persons from ITC are already covering 5 lakh households in the city as part of corporate social responsibility initiative.
The recruitment has been done after it was found that plastic waste disposed of indiscriminately got stuck in the storm-water drains and choked them, resulting in inundation of various localities in the city.
