Decade old waste mgmt programme of BMC proves failure in Bhilai
| Date :17-Sep-2019 |
Staff Reporter :
Bhilai
Despite several attempts and Clean India Initiative, the civic authorities have failed to implement waste isolation in all 70 wards of the city. There is no segregation of waste at the secondary garbage collection points and residents are forced to live in a pathetic condition. Because of it, all wards see wastes everywhere and it is inviting to numerous diseases too. Even the waste management programme which started around a decade ago proves failure in almost all of wards in Bhilai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Garbage is collected in a segregated form from the households and further goes to the secondary collection points. Due to the absence of arrangements, garbage collectors mix everything again. The officials have blamed less space at the sites as the reason behind the mess.
Residents have, however, claimed that heaps of garbage can be seen scattered in the city especially on the all roads of Bhilai Municipal Corporation including posh residential areas of the city too. Meena Singh a resident of Ram Nagar, said, “It gets difficult to use the roads of the colony especially in rainy season, because of the scattered garbage. If the authorities concerned cannot manage segregation of garbage even after passing of so many years, then how will they manage other things for the residents?” Ajit Bhandari, a resident of Smriti Nagar, said, “The road leading towards the hospital as well as shopping mall is full of garbage and most the time people use only one side of the road.”.
He said if segregation of waste was started in the residential areas, then the civic body should have implemented the same at the garbage collection points. Meanwhile, when contacted Dharmendra Mishra, in-charge officer of Health and cleanliness of BMC, he said, “We have kicked off segregation of waste in almost all the wards all together, but people should also understand the cleanliness of the areas and do not throw wastes in any of the areas including in front of major roads.” Regarding segregation at the secondary garbage collection points, he said there was lack of adequate space at some locations for keeping dry and wet garbage separately.
He claimed that they would find solution to the problem once they get static compactors at the secondary garbage collection points. Notably, the steel town generates almost 1,100 to 1,200 tonne garbage daily. Due to the absence of strict timings for taking garbage from the residential areas to the secondary garbage collection points, the waste management program of the corporation has failed completely to lift garbage from all the points. As a result, it would become difficult to pass through these roads. When contacted Rituraj Raghuvanshi, Mayor of Bhilai Municipal Corporation stated that at present BMC is facing shortage of funds and with it, it is not possible for cooperation to afford sufficient resources in keeping of cleanliness drive. The commissioner added that corporation approached high authorities in capital for getting funds and waiting for their final call. Till date, with limited manpower and resources, BMC will try its best to continue cleanliness drive.