Chandigarh mayor flags off door-to-door waste collection service

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh Mayor Rajesh Kumar and municipal commissioner on Tuesday flagged off 10 vehicles to carry out the door-to-door collection of waste in Sarangpur village.
The Mayor said that the 10 vehicles would collect waste in a segregated manner i.e. wet and dry separately in different cabins - near about 450 houses from village Sarangpur and 594 houses in Khudda Jassu village.
He said that the Municipal Corporation has purchased 99 vehicles of 3.2 cubic meter capacity to collect domestic waste. The dry and wet waste will be given by residents separately and will be collected in different compartments of the vehicles, he added.
The Mayor said that 55 vehicles will be used for the 13 villages recently transferred to the Municipal Corporation and the remaining 44 vehicles will be used for the unattended areas of the city which are not being catered by private waste collectors. Remaining villages will be taken up for collection of segregated waste through these vehicles within the next few days, added the Mayor.