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Garbage collection system revamped in five wards

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM MARCH 4. The City Corporation has broad-based the garbage removal system in the city with the introduction of Kudumbasree units for house-to-house collection.

The Local Administration Minister, Cherkalam Abdullah, inaugurated the project at a function organised here today.

The pilot project will cover the Medical College, Medical College East, Gowreesapattom, Fort and PTP Nagar wards. The door-to-door collection will be carried out by women from the DWCUA (Development of Women and Children in Urban Areas) units under the Kudumbasree project.

Each ward will have 15 women volunteers equipped with buckets, wheelbarrows and a specially-designed tipper autorickshaw. The volunteers will be issued uniforms and identity cards. Residents in the selected wards will be provided with two coloured buckets to segregate non-biodegradable waste from organic garbage.

Apart from houses, the City Corporation will collect waste from shops, hotels and wedding halls and transport it to the processing plant at Vilappilsala. Monitoring committees headed by councillors will be set up at the ward level to implement the scheme. Residents associations will be represented in the committees.

Working in two shifts, the volunteers will collect garbage from houses and transport it to transit depots. The service will carry a fee of Rs. 25 for each house. The fee for commercial institutions will be fixed later.

The Kudumbasree Executive Director, T. K. Jose, said the volunteers had been imparted training to take up the venture as an entrepreneurial effort. He said the project would later be augmented with the setting up of a decentralised network of garbage processing units. He said the participatory nature of the project would ensure its sustainability.

The Mayor, J. Chandra, said only Kudumbasree units approved by the Corporation would be authorised to collect garbage from houses. The civic body has issued an order banning all other private agencies from participating in the effort. The Mayor said the door-to-door collection system would be extended to 51 wards in the second phase.

The project will enable the sanitation workers of the Corporation to concentrate on night cleaning activities. The local body has allocated Rs.33 lakhs from Plan funds for the programme. The programme will gradually be augmented with the purchase of two-wheelers for health inspectors, garbage collection vehicles and other equipment.

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