The MC is planning to take over the operations of door to door garbage collection from individual private players and start charging for the garbage collection services independently from households and commercial establishments.

Five slabs have been set for residential dwelling units. These are up to 50 square metre, 50 square metre to 200 square metre, 200 square metre to 500 square metre, 500 square metre to 1,000 square metre and over 1,000 square metre. Reportedly, owners will have to pay between Rs50 and Rs350 per month to dispose of garbage on their doorstep in the form of segregated waste.

Charges will be added to the water bills or property tax bills, and are likely to imposed on 34,000 houses and 3,000 shops in areas.

At present, independent garbage collectors collect waste from the doorstep and segregate it themselves by charging amount. The Municipal Corporation intends to do this job now and charge for it.

The MC is already running vehicles in 13 UT villages to collect garbage segregated from households free of cost, but now it proposes to levy charges on it.

Commercial establishments, shops, eating places such as dhabas and sweets shops will be charged Rs500 per month. Restaurants up to a seating capacity of 50 persons will be required to pay Rs2,000 and those with the capacity of over 50 persons will be charged Rs3,000. Clinics, dispensaries, laboratories (more than 50 beds) with non bio-medical waste will be charged Rs4,000 per month.

Medical Officer of Health Dr. Amrit Pal Warring said: “These charges have already been approved. We are just informing the House that earlier the MC was not charging any money, but now it will charge the money.”

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