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Ambala, June 20
In a bid to improve the poor cleanliness arrangements, the district administration has contemplated to introduce waste segregation and door-to-door collection of garbage in Ambala.
So far, 23 big institutions, which generate maximum garbage, have already been asked to segregate waste. A 17-acre site at Patvi village on the Naraingarh road has been made a dumping ground as per the instructions issued by the National Green Tribunal (NGT).
Issuing directions to this effect after the Chief Secretary, Haryana, DS Dhesi, reviewed the ongoing work on the project. Deputy Commissioner, Ambala, Sharandeep Kaur Brar, asked district officials concerned, especially those from the Municipal Corporation and Pollution Board, to ensure that the waste segregation and door-to-door garbage collection was implemented in right earnest to comply with the directions of the NGT.
She asked the civic authorities to launch a mass public awareness campaign to educate the general public about the segregation of waste and dispose off their daily garbage in a proper manner to keep the environment and their surroundings clean and green. Brar directed officials to ensure that residents use blue coloured dustbins for disposing dry and green for wet garbage.
“Similarly, garbage collectors should also be educated to keep the waste collected from source in a segregated manner till its disposal through scientific manner advised by the NGT,” she added.
The DC further instructed officials of the Pollution Board to educate the general public and institutions about plastic waste management and ensure that eateries, vendors, shopkeepers and other places shun the use of plastic bags and other plastic articles used for storage and carriage of food and other items.