MCB plans to give garbage collection in pvt hands

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, December 7

The Municipal Corporation of Bathinda (MCB) has planned to give door-to-door garbage collection work on contract in the city.

TheMCB has decided to purchase its own mini-tipper with the grant of the Union Government received under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

After JITF Company pulled its hand off from the door-to-door garbage collection in the city, the MCB took the work in its own hands. Later, the MCB made a plan of making a bin-free city.

Under the bin-free project, the MCB has a plan to buy 46 mini-tippers and it has already got a nod in the general house meeting in September to purchase the mini-tippers to directly collect garbage from households and transport it directly to the solid waste plant.

The MCB had even released a tender for purchasing mini-tippers but now it has pulled its hand back from doing door-to-door garbage collection work on its own citing that they don’t have proper arrangements in place to run the work smoothly.

The MCB doesn’t have a workshop for the maintenance of vehicles and not even the manpower required for the work.

Apart from this, they also lack supervising staff, due to which it will not be possible for them to run this project on their own successfully.

Due to which in the new plan, the MCB will give its new mini-tippers to a contractor to run and maintain these. The contractor will directly collect garbage from households in mini-tippers and transport it to the solid waste plant.

Instead of giving all mini-tippers to one contractor, the MCB has planned to give the work to four contractors zone-wise.

As per the MCB, there are 52,000 domestic active waste generator units in the city, of which 5,000 units are in a densely populated area.

The civic body is planning to collect the garbage from this densely populated area with the help of tricycles. Besides, dustbins would be installed, wherein garbage of all other areas will be collected with compactors and mini-tippers.

The MCB has proposed that for 1,200 households, one mini-tipper or hopper is required and to cover 47,000 units, it needs 40 mini-tippers or hoppers.

Besides, six additional stand-by mini-tippers are also required that can be used at the time when any of the vehicle is damaged.