Cuttack: The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has planned to introduce a slew of measures to improve garbage disposal system in the Silver City.
The civic body has put emphasis on door-to-door collection of garbage to keep the city neat and clean. It has recently convened a high-level meeting to deliberate on various issues of garbage disposal and devise a strategy to improve sanitation in the city.
Among others, CMC commissioner Sarat Chandra Nayak, deputy commissioner (enforcement) Saroj Kumar Rout, deputy commissioner (slum improvement) Debashis Mohanty and secretary Latashri Bagh were present at the meeting.
As per the decisions in the meeting, sanitary staff of the CMC would be responsible for door-to-door collection of garbage by blowing whistles. “Our employees would travel on each street of the city by blowing whistles every day. They would collect garbage from each household and dispose it outside the city,” said a CMC official.
Moreover, the CMC would take steps to install dustbins on each street to collect garbage. “The civic body has put emphasis on proper solid waste management in the city. Vehicles would be kept ready to carry garbage from various localities of the city to dump yards,” said the official.
It is worth mentioning here that the CMC had engaged a private agency for collection and disposal of garbage from the city. “The private agency has been receiving Rs 1.5 crore per month from the CMC. But, it has failed to improve the garbage disposal system,” said a source.
CMC commissioner Sarat Chandra Nayak said they would hold a few training programmes to create awareness on proper solid waste management among the civic body’s sanitary staff.
Notably, several health experts have recently blamed poor garbage disposal system for frequent outbreak of diseases like dengue, malaria, jaundice and diarrhoea in the city.