Garbage crisis: Mayor warns of strict action against erring staff

  • | Monday | 16th July, 2018

“Five months on, we still see waste being collected at street corners, people giving mixed waste, and processing not done at ward level. The houseflies sit on dirt, faeces, drain water and then transport the infection to food and drinking water, leading to food contamination and subsequent stomach infection and gastro,” he said. Almost the entire civic staff, except those in water supply and inward and outward departments, attended the meeting.Garbage has started to accumulate in the city after the Naregaon/Mandki dump yard was closed five months ago. Soggy waste becomes a good breeding ground for flies. Aurangabad: Mayor Nandkumar Ghodele on Monday said that the civic officials and workers failing to achieve segregation of waste and doorstep collection in their respective wards or zones would face suspension.Ghodele said this during a meeting convened to discuss the means to address the garbage crisis in the city.

Aurangabad: Mayor Nandkumar Ghodele on Monday said that the civic officials and workers failing to achieve segregation of waste and doorstep collection in their respective wards or zones would face suspension.Ghodele said this during a meeting convened to discuss the means to address the garbage crisis in the city. Almost the entire civic staff, except those in water supply and inward and outward departments, attended the meeting.Garbage has started to accumulate in the city after the Naregaon/Mandki dump yard was closed five months ago. Wards which have not been practising door-to-door collection and segregation of waste at source have large heaps of waste deposited with no place to dispose of it.In Monday’s meeting, Ghodele expressed regret that the city has failed in the most fundamental steps of solid waste management, ie, segregation of waste at source and doorstep collection. “Five months on, we still see waste being collected at street corners, people giving mixed waste, and processing not done at ward level. There has to a point where we have to begin action,” he said.Giving example of Indore, which has topped the cleanliness survey of the country for two consecutive years, the mayor said that when things were not working out, the Indore Municipal Corporation had suspended 1,000 workers of the sanitation department following which things got into place. He advised the sanitation department here to get its act together.In an attempt to control spread of diseases due to the accumulated waste and rainwater, the municipal corporation has joined hands with the district malaria control department.District malaria officer Anil Patil said that he will meet the health department of the AMC and strategize a plan to control houseflies. “Houseflies lay eggs in moist conditions. Soggy waste becomes a good breeding ground for flies. The houseflies sit on dirt, faeces, drain water and then transport the infection to food and drinking water, leading to food contamination and subsequent stomach infection and gastro,” he said.

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