Garbage free city
Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner P. Muthuveeran told presspersons on Monday that non-Governmental organisations, self-help groups and residents’ welfare associations will be roped in to form in all the 72 wards 15-member committees that will spread the message of source segregation, door-to-door collection and the importance of a litter-free city.The committees, headed by the councillors, would motivate people in these areas and provide this service free of cost. Mr. Muthuveeran said Rs.50,000 to Rs.1 lakh would be spent in each ward for awareness drives. The amount would vary with the size of the ward and the population. But, in case of shortage of workers to desilt storm water drains, the people could engage private workers and Government funds could be provided to cover the expenses incurred.
The Commissioner said that the first phase of the distribution of bins that began on Monday would provide these to 25,000 houses in three wards (42, 43 and 49). Each bin would be enough for daily storage as it had a capacity of 10 litres.The Commissioner said the distribution of bins that began in three wards would be extended to the rest of the city in phases as more bins arrived. Timings would be fixed for every street for garbage collection. “More bins are being procured. Tenders have been submitted and they are being scrutinised,” he said.
While the bins and push carts would take care of the primary collection of garbage from individual buildings, trucks that could accommodate waste-laden plastic containers would do the secondary collection from four transfer stations in the city – Peelamedu, Ukkadam, Sathyamangalam Road and Uppilipalayam.Waste collected from houses would be stored here for a brief while and the trucks would remove it from the stations to the compost yard. The Commissioner said that 20 of the 33 lorries procured for this had arrived. The rest would arrive by the end of this month.
