The Noida Authority will begin its door-to-door waste collection from five sectors and a village on Thursday . The sectors to be included are 14, 15, 50, 51,137 and village Agahpur.
It should be noted that waste collection will be restarted after a gap of two months.
Soft launch
Calling it a soft launch before full-fledged services begin from March this year, the Noida Authority officials said 20 tipper vans (from the 30 procured so far) will be pressed into service for garbage collection. They said the tippers will make four-five rounds a day and collect three tonnes of waste from each sector.
Segregated waste will be collected by an appointed firm and it will be dumped at a temporary site on Mubarkapur to produce refuse-derived fuel, officials said.
The authority has invited suggestions from residents to identify sectors to roll out the project.
Currently, Noida — spread over 20,316 hectares with 168 sectors and 80 villages — generates 600 tonnes of waste every day. About 1,600 Health Department workers strive hard to keep the city litter-free.
10-year contract
The project is being carried out with the support of individual Residents Welfare Association. Mumbai-based AG Enviro Infra Projects had bagged a 10-year contract of ₹306 crore for the door-to-door waste collection and the firm will take care of the waste collection and disposal, said the officials.
Currently, it is in the process of procuring more machinery and deploy requisite manpower to implement the programme effectively.
OSD to Noida Authority Rajesh Kumar Singh said “We are going to start the project in a few sectors/villages and cover the entire Noida in a year.” Officials said the contractor will start by collecting segregated garbage from a few sectors.
Officials said nothing has been finalised yet, but they might initiate the process of flagging off the tipper vans for waste collection from Sector 6 on Thursday.