Bulk generators of garbage come under govt scanner

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 4

Bulk generators of solid waste, including garbage, are under the scanner of the Haryana Government. As part of its strategy for scientific solid waste management, the government has cracked the whip on those generating above 100 kg of garbage daily.

They have been asked to recycle garbage into fertiliser or face action under the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. At a high-level meeting presided over by Urban Local Bodies Minister Kavita Jain here on Friday, ways and means for scientific solid waste management were discussed.

It was stressed that bulk generators of garbage, including hotels, group housing societies, banquet halls and other commercial and industrial establishments, should be asked to recycle solid waste into garbage, electricity and gas till the time 14 cluster-based integrated solid waste management facilities were in place.

Under its solid waste management policy, the government had identified 14 cluster-based integrated solid waste management facilities for 81 urban local bodies. The state had been divided into 14 clusters, of which four — Gurugram-Faridabad, Rohtak, Sonepat and Ambala — would be on the waste to energy mode.

Similarly, 10 clusters — Jind, Hisar, Sirsa, Rewari, Panchkula, Bhiwani, Farukhnagar, Karnal-Yamunanagar, Punhana and Fatehabad — would be on the waste to compost or refused derived fuel mode. It was stated that door-to-door garbage collection had been started in 80 per cent areas in Gurugram and Sonepat zones while 90 per cent of garbage was being deposited at earmarked places.

Work on door-to-door collection of garbage and its scientific disposal in other zones was in the advanced stage of implementation. Moreover, 412 of the 1,632 identified bulk garbage generators had started the process of recycling garbage into fertiliser.