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Waste segregation: Mayor fails to keep his promise

CHANDIGARH: Little over three months are left for Mayor Rajesh Kalia’s one-year tenure to get over, but his promise of signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with waste collectors for starting dry and wet garbage segregation in the city has not been kept.

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Sandeep Rana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 19

Little over three months are left for Mayor Rajesh Kalia’s one-year tenure to get over, but his promise of signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with waste collectors for starting dry and wet garbage segregation in the city has not been kept.

At the time of taking over reins of the Municipal Corporation (MC), the Mayor, who himself was once a waste collector and belonged to the same Valmiki community, had promised to get the garbage segregation started by convincing waste collectors.

The City Beautiful has been lagging behind in the national swachhta ranking in the recent past mainly due to non-implementation of the waste segregation project.

Chandigarh slipped from third position to 20th in the 2019 Swachh Survekshan. This year, too, it seems the non-implementation of the project is going to hit the prospects of the City Beautiful in the cleanliness survey.

The civic body failed to begin garbage segregation baring a few villages falling in the UT where it was launched recently.

“It has been over nine months, but the Mayor failed to keep his word. We wanted to streamline the system. By bringing collectors under the MC, they would have got salaries on the DC rates. At present, due to monopoly of few leaders in the trade, common waste collector is suffering,” commented former Mayor and present councillor Davesh Moudgil.

“The Mayor must implement the garbage segregation project so that waste collectors do not suffer and their interests are taken care off,” he added.

“We have not been approached regarding the MoU for now. We want that collection rates are not reduced and we are allowed to work independently. However, there is difference of opinion regarding this. Thus, waste segregation could not be implemented. At our end, we have no issue with the project,” said Prakash Saini, chairman, Door-to-Door Garbage Collection Society.

Meanwhile, Mayor Kalia, said, “We have held talks with waste collectors. We will soon sign an MoU in for garbage segregation.” For the last few months the Mayor has been claiming that waste segregation will start soon, but it seem that no progress has been made in this direction.

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