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Panels to oversee garbage clearance

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE June 6. For effective implementation and evaluation of new garbage contracts, the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) will soon set up committees to monitor each of the 62 contract packages.

The committees will not only assess the contractors' performance, but also approve the monthly payment of bills, the BMP Special Commissioner, Mahendra Jain, said here on Friday.

At an interaction meeting organised by CIVIC Bangalore on the contracts, he said each committee would comprise two citizens (Shuchi Mitras or local citizens), two nominees of the residents' associations (RAs), community-based organisations (CBOs), and NGOs in the areas under the package and two or more BMP health officials.

The members would be nominated at an open meeting of RAs, CBOs, NGOs, and Shuchi Mitras. The BMP Zonal Deputy commissioners (DCs) would head the meeting and explain the modalities of the involvement of citizens, he said. The committees would meet monthly to review the contractors' performance. This meeting would be followed by another with the contractors to discuss the review findings and approve the bill based on their performance. The supervisors of each package had been asked to take at least two signatures in the logbook from the citizens on every street.

He said based on the logbook entries, the committee would rate the contract performance through parameters. These included daily sweeping of roads, footpaths, and drains, 100 per cent door-to-door garbage collection, daily clearance of community bins, transportation of waste in lories covered with wire-mesh, vacant site cleanliness, and several others.

Prescribed monitoring formats would be given to the committees and penalty ranging from Rs. 90 to Rs. 1,200 slapped on the contractors for poor or non-performance. The contractors were liable to be blacklisted if there were more than four performance default reports against them, he added.

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