Panchkula to promote dustbins for cars

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, June 15

In an initiative to keep the city clean, the Panchkula Municipal Corporation (MC) has decided to promote dustbins for cars so that people don’t throw trash from their vehicles after consuming eatables.

Two different sizes

Mayor Kulbhushan Goyal said these dustbins would be of two different sizes. Small dustbin would be given for Rs100 and the large one for Rs180. City residents would be able to purchase the dustbin from the NGO’s office in Sector 14.

For this, the MC has tied up with an NGO, Haryana Navyuvak Kala Sangam. The NGO will provide dustbins to the civic body at subsidised rates. Now, people can keep the waste in dustbins in their cars and dump it in waste bins at their houses or at various markets.

This has been decided as there is a general tendency among people to purchase eatables from the market, consume it in the comfort of their cars and throw the waste outside the vehicle.

Mayor Kulbhushan Goyal said these dustbins would be of two different sizes. Small dustbin would be given for Rs100 and the large one for Rs180. Haryana Speaker Gian Chand Gupta would launch the project on June 17. He said city residents would be able to purchase the dustbin from the NGO’s office in Sector 14. It would easily fit in the doors of the car. These dustbins were being launched under the Swachh Bharat Mission. A composter had also been prepared with the help of the NGO and its price had been kept at Rs800 per unit.

The Mayor said the MC, with the help of the NGO, also got envelopes prepared from maize grains to completely stop the use of polythene. Once dumped, these biodegradable envelopes would automatically merge in soil. A special paper had been prepared using waste and seeds. Whenever this paper would be dumped, plants would grow out of the seeds in the paper.

Dr Praveen Kumar, manager of the NGO, said more items prepared by waste paper would be kept in the NGO’s office.