Garbage vehicles miss trip, open plots become dump yard

  • | Thursday | 17th January, 2019

As a result residents are forced to dump garbage in open plots or by the roadside.Under the comprehensive solid waste management project, HDMC has introduced 176 auto tippers to collect garbage. Tenders will be invited to procure 20 more auto tippers and 15 light commercial vehicles to collect garbage from commercial establishments. However, the ineffective collection of garbage has rendered the Rs 60 crore project useless.Residents are not happy with the way civic HDMC’s civic workers collect garbage. Garbage vehicles hardly come to our area. “Once the compactor station starts functioning, vehicles that collect garbage in remote areas of the city need not go all the way to dumping yard on Karwar Road to dump waste.

Hubballi: The Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation’s ambitious comprehensive solid waste management project in the twin cities has gone for a toss as the auto tippers pressed for door-to-door collection of garbage are not visiting all areas every day. As a result residents are forced to dump garbage in open plots or by the roadside.Under the comprehensive solid waste management project, HDMC has introduced 176 auto tippers to collect garbage. However, the ineffective collection of garbage has rendered the Rs 60 crore project useless.Residents are not happy with the way civic HDMC’s civic workers collect garbage. Rasheed Bagalkot, a resident of ward number 39 said, “The garbage collecting vehicles do not come daily. The vehicle visits the area every alternate day. We have no option but to dispose the garbage in open plots if vehicles do not come every day.”Ramesh Patil, a resident of ward number 26 said the vehicle visits their area once in two or three days. “HDMC should increase its fleet of auto tippers or should provide a waste container so that residents can dispose garbage,” he said.Prajwal Solanki of ward number 40 said, “We are not happy with HDMC’s new SWM plan. Garbage vehicles hardly come to our area. I have raised a complaint in this regard but the problem has remained as it is. The civic workers claim that they don’t have enough tippers to cover the entire area.”Speaking to TOI, Mayor Sudhir Saraf admitted to lapses in garbage collection. He said, “As we have provided fewer vehicles in 11 wards, garbage is not being collected on a daily basis in some parts of these 11 wards. Tenders will be invited to procure 20 more auto tippers and 15 light commercial vehicles to collect garbage from commercial establishments. If the vehicles join the existing fleet, the work will be streamlined,” he said.The mayor added that HDMC was constructing a compactor station at Unkal. “Once the compactor station starts functioning, vehicles that collect garbage in remote areas of the city need not go all the way to dumping yard on Karwar Road to dump waste. Thus the frequency of vehicles will be increased,” Saraf said. HDMC commissioner C W Shakeel Ahemad said, “HDMC has enough vehicles to cover the entire residential areas. It is wrong if a vehicle misses its routine. All the vehicles have been equipped with GPS. If vehicle drivers are found flouting their routes strict action will be taken against them.”

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