NOIDA: Resident welfare associations (RWAs) will install
compost machines within sectors which will be maintained and operated from
community centre earnings. Also, private contractors hired by authority for sanitation and horticulture work (related to watering of parks and pruning of trees etc.) will be hired once they are verified by the sector
RWAs and sanitation work within residential sectors to be undertaken by RWAs once authority sanctions 75 % of its cost. All this and more were decided in a meeting of RWA federation with authority
CEO Alok Tandon on Monday.
“We met CEO Alok Tandon today to discuss the long pending unattended sanitation work in residential sectors due to the ongoing strike by sanitation workers, the segregation of waste charges proposed to be implemented from July 1 and modalities of implementation of compost machine in residential sectors etc.,” said N P Singh president Federation of Noida Residents Welfare Associations (FONRWA).
Singh told TOI that the RWA federation demanded that Authority hand over sanitation work of residential sectors to sector RWAs by bearing 75 % of its cost. He also maintained that compost machines will be installed in sectors (starting with 10) where 95 % of the cost will be borne by authority and 5 % of its cost and operational expenses will be borne by RWAs through the earning of the sector community centres. “So the machines will be set up in sectors which have community centres where its power bill as well as operational cost up to 5 % will be borne through the earnings of the community centre. To begin with, 10 sectors will install these machines. We will send the list of those sectors in a couple of days. For sectors which do not have community centres, we have asked CEO Tandon that Authority should pay the power bill as well as the maintenance cost of compost machines to be set up there,” said Singh who added that CEO Tandon as agreed to the suggestion.
“Community centre earnings can be used to maintain compost machines,” Tandon told TOI.
Also, on RWA federation’s demand to hand over sanitation work of residential sectors to sector RWAs CEO Tandon told TOI that, “FONRWA mentioned that if they are allowed to handle sanitation works, they would be able to do the job at 75 % of the cost of what authority spends. We would try out this model in 5 RWAs,” said Tandon.
“We will begin with five sectors such as 35, 52, 20, 100 etc. who are willing to take over the task once authority bears 75 % of its cost,” said A N Dhawan, secretary general FONRWA.
While RWA federation refused to pay charges for door-to-door segregated municipal waste collection as understood by authority’s directive from July 1 (when it’ll stop collecting unsegregated waste) and demanded details of user charge, CEO Tandon maintained that segregation charge will not be issued anytime soon. “The said charges will only come in force once a private agency is hired for door-to-door segregated waste collection,” said Tandon who agreed to provide details of user charge to be levied.
FONRWA maintained that the residents have paid their municipal taxes/GST and Authority should provide civic facilities to the city rather than let it out to private contractors. “If short of funds then it should seek financial aid from state or central government rather than burden the residents of the city,” said Singh.