Despite Haryana announcing a Municipal Solid Waste Agency in Gurugram on June 11, the waste management situation in the city continues to deteriorate.
Haryana Chief Secretary TVSN Prasad, who also serves as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA), launched the Solid Waste Environment Emergency Program (SWEP) to address the major waste management issues in Gurugram. ) was started.
As a result of the emergency, a high-level committee was constituted with Divisional Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, MCG Commissioner, Chief Engineer of Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA), Senior Environmental Engineer of Haryana State Pollution Control Board, and Deputy Commissioner. was given. Contacted the Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) but the problem could not be resolved.
Chitali Mandhotra, a member of Ardi City RWA, said, “We have been uploading pictures and locations of garbage heaps and C&D dumps since the helpline started, but there has been no action. We have lodged our complaint. Also put on the M window, which was processed by burning garbage. No one came to clean or sweep in months.”
Gauri Sarin, founder of Making Model Gurugram, a citizens' initiative, said, “We need a mechanism to manage service quality, which means fixing the areas of accountability, manpower, equipment and disposal. The tendering process is a complete change and project management exercise and requires a professional approach to ensure a high level of execution.
Ashwini Dogal, another key member of MMG, said that private operators are more efficient than MCG staff. “Constant changes and changes also take time. Inadequate management and resource deployment for sanitation is a major problem. For example, Zone 3 has only two tractor-trolleys and one JCB. Door-to-door collection is another. The challenge is to work with competing private vendors to properly dispose of the waste,” he said.
MCG Joint Commissioner Naresh Kumar said they have launched a city-wide cleanliness drive and teams have been formed to restore and improve the door-to-door garbage collection system.
MCG Commissioner Dr. Narhari Singh Bangar said that door-to-door garbage collection system has been started in all the wards of the municipal area. “Under SWAP, efforts are on on a war footing to keep the municipal area clean. Employees are picking up garbage from houses using tractor trolleys, tippers and rickshaws. This system not only ensures that garbage is collected from houses. It also eliminates hazardous areas of waste, keeping streets, alleys, empty plots and other public places clean.Furthermore, secondary collection points are being increasingly cleaned, waste bins being delivered to the management plant.”
Residents can contact Zone 1 officials at 8826003518, Zone Two officials at 8826003517, Zone Three at 8826005275 and Zone Four at 8826005285, officials said. The MCG commissioner said that residents can contact WhatsApp helpline number 7290097 for any complaint. issues, 7290076135 for horticultural waste, and 7290088127 for C&D waste.