The Directorate of Urban Development has instructed all city corporations, and city and town municipalities not to buy containers to collect garbage, as well as dumper placer vehicles. It also instructed civic bodies to disuse containers and dumper placers which had already been purchased.
The directorate further directed corporations and other municipal bodies to shift garbage collected from primary sources through house-to-house collection to garbage trucks and send it to decentralised garbage processing units or landfill sites.
NuisanceIt said that people would not put garbage properly into the containers and civic bodies would not lift the garbage periodically, creating a nuisance to passersby and people near the containers. Hence, the directorate found that garbage containers was not an ideal solution. In accordance with a directorate issued recently, the Mysore City Corporation had decided not to purchase containers hereafter nor to repair damaged containers.
C.G. Betsurmath, Commissioner of Mysuru City Corporation, told The Hindu here today that the Corporation had purchased over 250 containers sometime ago and they were placed at certain points in the city.
He said that many of them, which were in a ramshackle condition, were being withdrawn and in another three to four months there would be no garbage container in any part of the city. The Commissioner said that the corporation had already commenced collecting segregated garbage from households, hotels and restaurants and other shops.
The Corporation took up a drive to create awareness among people about the need to segregate waste. It had distributed over three lakh dust bins to BPL families and to people living in different slums in Mysuru city, he said.
However, containers in many parts of the city are overflowing with filth and garbage. The Corporation had spent crores of rupees to buy containers few years ago.
