Suman Chakraborti | TNN
Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipality has launched its Green City Clean City programme in Salt Lake. Under the programme, the staff engaged in waste management will collect the daily garbage in the township and dump it directly in Mollar bheri, minimising the use of vats as far as possible.
The Green City Clean City initiative has been taken with the plan to completely abolish the vat collection system. The workers engaged in sweeping the streets and collecting the daily accumulated garbage have been provided with gloves, masks and uniforms. The workers will clean up all the roads in the township.
“It is a new system that we are now experimenting with and trying to fully implement for the entire township. Apart from the existing set-up, we are bringing five more garbage collecting trucks very soon,” said chairman-in-council (waste management) member Debasis Jana. The civic authorities will spend about Rs 15 lakh for the project. The authorities have in fact increased the budgetary allocations implementing the scheme.
The workers have been divided in such a way that each of them will be looking after some particular lanes inside the blocks. The project has been launched from AE and BE blocks and will further spread to other areas of the township. The waste is collected from all the individual residential houses and there are separate bins to dump specific types of garbage. The garbage on the roads is also collected and put into the bins. After mass collection, the garbage is then dumped in the trucks that goes directly to the Mollar bheri dumping ground.
Civic officials said it will take some time for the project
to be fully operational across the entire township. “We are trying to remove the vat system in this way which is more systematic in nature,” said a civic official. The old waste collection system through the vats will be steadily phased out.
Among the other long-term plans of the civic authorities is to carry out tree plantation programmes, beautification and maintenance of the islands and the green verges that falls in between the blocks and to switch to solar power for the lighting of the islands and for the streetlights, particularly for the added areas.
A worker in uniform collects garbage in Salt Lake
