A 12-member municipal corporation (MC) committee, headed by mayor Balkar Sandhu, will be visiting Chennai to study the solid waste management model in the city. The team will leave the city on Wednesday and return on Saturday.
As per MC officials, the civic body is working to hire new contractors for solid waste management in the city and the company dealing with waste management in Chennai has invited the committee to look into its working. The committee will also look into the working of the civic body.
Apart from Sandhu, senior deputy mayor Sham Sundar Malhotra, MC commissioner Pardeep Sabharwal, councillors Jai Prakash, Sunny Bhalla and Yashpal Chaudhary; secretary Jasdev Sekhon, superintending engineers Rahul Gagneja and Rajinder Singh; nodal officer (health branch) Ashwani Sahota and Harpal Aujla are also part of the committee.
Mayor Balkar Sandhu said that MC has decided to hire separate contractors for lifting of garbage from the city and processing the waste at the main dump site. “The committee will look into the working of the company and the civic body regarding door-to-door lifting, transportation and processing of waste. But, the contractor will be hired by following a proper tendering process only. The company is bearing the entire cost of the visit,” said Sandhu.
In October last year, an MC team also visited Indore, known as the cleanest city of the country, to study its solid waste management model. But, no concrete steps have yet been taken yet to improve the situation in the city, even as the residents have raised issues like open dumping of garbage and frequent fire incidents at the main dump site.
{{/usCountry}}In October last year, an MC team also visited Indore, known as the cleanest city of the country, to study its solid waste management model. But, no concrete steps have yet been taken yet to improve the situation in the city, even as the residents have raised issues like open dumping of garbage and frequent fire incidents at the main dump site.
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