BHOPAL: The municipal corporation has withdrawn over 80% large garbage bins from the city — with only about 500 remaining in the open.This move is an effort to comply with the Swachh Bharat Mission survey rules for 2019 — that mandates removal of large open garbage bins from near residential colonies.With less than two months left for the survey that begins on January 4, BMC is stressing on conducting 100% door-to-door collection of waste to avoid piling of garbage.“Bhopal Municipal Corporation is now banking on city residents to make the state capital free of garbage bins,” said BMC commissioner Avinash Lavania on Saturday.“BMC has increased its capacity to collect waste, resources and synchronized waste collection time with residential needs. It would take time to adjust to the new situation. In the end, we cannot succeed without the support of the city residents,” said Lavania. Bhopal has attained distinction of being adjudged ‘the second cleanest city’ in the country for two consecutive years.As a measure to improve BMC capacity and frequency to collect waste, the civic body has introduced 30 more garbage transfer tippers. Over the next few days, over 180 would be introduced. BMC started withdrawing large bins from across all 85-wards around September. BMC claims it has already a set mechanism in place for door-to-door collection. 82% of waste that is collected is residential, 11% is commercial and 7% of waste is from sweeping of streets.Bhopal currently generates 850 tonnes per day of municipal solid waste . With projected population growth, MSW generation is expected to increase to 912 tonnes per day by 2021. If BMC is successful in its endeavour, waste would be directly transferred to a transport chain with or without transfer station, directly to the processing centre for scientific disposal.

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