North body issues notices to waste defaulters
NEWDELHI: Coming down heavily on bulk generators not segregating municipal waste, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has issued show cause notices to 300 defaulters in the last one month.
The North Corporation officials said that despite notification of solid waste bylaws in January 2018, many had not adhered to the norms.
“This has forced us to take action. To begin with, we have decided to focus on bulk waste producers, producing at least 100 kg waste per day, for enforcement of solid waste management (MSW) rules. We visited over 300 sites during the survey and found majority of them flouting the norms,”said Madhup Vyas, North Corporation commissioner.
As per MSW rules, the bulk generators are expected to segregate and dispose of wet (organic) waste at the site itself and only dry waste can be handed over to corporations.
Bulk producers consist of banquet halls, education institutions, RWAS, co-operative group housing societies, restaurants and malls.
“As per estimates, there would be at least 5,000 bulk generators in our jurisdiction and they contribute around 45-50% of the total municipal soild waste generated everyday. We have plans to continue these inspections in future as well considering half of our waste will be segregated everyday if these people start following norms,” said a senior North Corporation official.
The civic agency generates 3,800-4,000 metric tonne solid waste everyday. Out of this, 2,000 metric tonne goes to Narela Bawana waste-to-energy plant and rest to the Bhalswa landfill.
“We had given two months’ time to these defaulters to follow the norms to avoid penalty action. There is provision to impose penalty of ₹10,000 on bulk producers not segregating waste,” said the official. NEWDELHI: Delhi education minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday ordered an inquiry and sought a report on a “controversial question” asked to students taking the LLB third semester exam in Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University’.
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