Garbage collection
The civic body’s garbage collection centers in Chennai seem to be turning into mini dump yards of their own. As the city precariously stands on the brink of an outbreak of diarrhea, these garbage collection points have become breeding ground for mosquitos and houseflies. The Chennai Corporation is forced to dismantle the bright blue aluminium [...] Continue Reading »
The ambitious project taken up by the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) seeking the door-to-door collection of garbage, now seems to be in disorder with the project mostly failing to elicit assistance from the city residents. As being admitted by the civic body itself, sanitary workers have to face hostile conduct from many households and also [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent development, Crime Investigation Department (CID), has been approached to probe allegations of corruption against the city’s municipal corporation in allotment of garbage-collection contracts to private parties. Around 75 per cent of the garbage is being cleared by private contractors, the remaining by municipality employees. As per the allegation, made during the ongoing [...] Continue Reading »
The Chandigarh city has been following other cities, the Chandigarh civic body has therefore decided to carry on collect garbage from the residents directly. This door to door garbage collection at present has been taken up as a pilot project. It has been learnt that all the private contractors lift garbage from the residential areas [...] Continue Reading »
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) in Pune garbage collection tender was in the air! Finally, the garbage collection tender has been granted to the city based organization Swach by PCMC. Also, to keep track of regular garbage collection PCMC has provided 100 hyper hydraulic tempos to the organization. The Swach Park expert say that [...] Continue Reading »
A ward in Mumbai is far from all the basic amenities and issues are falling on deaf ears! F North Ward, a ward of apartments and slums has been dealing with civic problems and the civic body is yet to act. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been updated with the ward’s improper garbage collection and [...] Continue Reading »
A new garbage cleaning mantra is being followed in Chennai city. All the 200 wards that come under the city has been included for the new scheme of garbage collection and street cleaning mechanism. Online route maps has been promised to be provided to ensure the complete neatness of the city! Also, technology has hit [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Chennai are now going to learn a new lesson from none other than “conservancy workers“. The employees of Ramky Enviro have taken up the initiative of spreading awareness about the garbage clearance operation. Ramky Enviro, a firm which has taken up conservancy works in Teynampet, Kodambakkam and Adyar zones . The workers will [...] Continue Reading »
A new system of terms and conditions was supposed to be declared to the garbage contractors from August 2011. However, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has not taken initiative of fulfilling this, as it has long pending tenders. The tender process has been kept pending since August 2011, and the due to this the contractors [...] Continue Reading »
A good deed is not necessarily always appreciated! BBMP is soon to start door to door garbage collection campaign and will shut down the present disposal of garbage in garbage bins and pits. However, a corporator from Rayapuram ward has taken the initiative of building a garbage pit in the Jagajeevanram Nagar Referral Hospital. The [...] Continue Reading »
