Many colonies do not have dustbins

While a large number of the garbage bins in the city are in an appalling condition, many colonies don’t have GHMC-provided community bins at all.

Some of these were removed either during road widening or other works like laying pipelines and were never replaced. The mode of collection of waste from the households too differs from colony to colony.

Currently, there is no action plan with GHMC about the doorto-door collection and officials say that the public has to pay private parties a small sum to collect the waste. Also, if GHMC plans to implement the scheme, a huge amount of investment needs to be made to modify the existing tricycles and bins as they don’t have any dividers or segregators. Neither do the trucks, which transport the garbage to transit points, have any such provision.

GHMC officials say it will cost around `25 crore to `40 crore to distribute bins to households and much more for the overall implementation. With the current form of infrastructure in place, even if GHMC goes ahead with distribution of two bins per household, the project will fall flat.

Former IAS officer and current DG of Administrative Staff College of India, Ravi Kant, who is an expert in solid waste management, had recently made a presentation on waste management before the CM and GHMC officials.

“Collection and transportation of the segregated waste are very important for efficiency. There should be a separate vehicle to transport the dry waste to the recycling industries or a common point from where these industries can take the recyclable waste,” he had said. “Similarly, there should be a separate transport vehicle for the organic waste,” he added.