103 more fined for failing to sort waste

Chandigarh | Thursday | 17th October, 2019

Summary:

Tribune News ServiceChandigarh, October 16Even as the waste management plan of the Municipal Corporation is in doldrums, it challaned 103 defaulters, including four door-to-door waste collectors, for not segregating dry and wet waste today. Teams of the sanitation wing of the MC inspected their respective areas throughout the city and challaned the defaulters, who did not give segregated waste to the door-to-door collectors. The Municipal Corporation challaned 103 violators and imposed a fine of Rs 200 each on them as per the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. The door-to-door waste collectors were challaned in Sector 44 and Mauli Jagran. On its part, the civic body has not been able to clear all its sehaj safai kendras (SSKs) of old waste..