GURUGRAM: The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) collected samples from around 20 Ecogreen vehicles carrying household waste to the Bandhwari landfill on Saturday. The samples have been handed over to a government-authorised lab to check the contents of the waste and define the maximum quantity of waste an Ecogreen vehicle can carry.
Officials said that after an average quantity is worked out, MCG will lay out norms stating the maximum weight that a waste collection vehicle can carry. There have been complaints that soil is mixed with garbage to increase the quantity, as Ecogreen is paid on the basis of quantity of waste transported, they said. The move is being done to check this practice, the officials added.
Mayor Madhu Azad on Friday had nominated councillors Dinesh Sahni and Ashwani Sharma for the committee to check such irregularities. She said it was decided to constitute a committee to probe the complaints raised against Ecogreen.
“We have collected samples from the Ecogreen vehicles. The idea is to check the content of the waste being carried to the landfill and calculate the quantity on the basis of the wet and dry waste that one vehicle carries so that we don’t have to pay extra to the concessionaire,” concillor Sharma said.
Meanwhile, Ecogreen general manager (operations) Suvendu Samantaray said: “We have different types of vehicles for carrying waste. Samples were collected from household waste. The maximum weight permitted will be defined on a cubic-metre basis so that MCG does not have to pay beyond it.”