‘Segregated trash can generate income, Noida should do it’

  • | Saturday | 16th June, 2018

Huge amount of income is expected from the sale of recyclable waste collected from home. So why the burden of waste collection charge is being levied on residents,” asked AN Dhawan, secretary general of FONRWA.“In public interest, we’ve urged CEO Alok Tandon that only part cost from various waste generators (excluding residents/families) may be levied for waste collection as residents have already paid for the municipal services in the leasehold costs and other costs of their properties,” he added. July 1, 2018. In the absence of deployment of authorised pickers before the said date, whom shall the households handover the segregated waste,” he asked.According to the RWA federation, even if the lowest slab of Rs 25 is charged per family, the aggregated collection of user charges shall come to Rs 62.5 lakh per month (given the population of Noida is an estimated 10 lakh).“The Authority is obliged to provide such municipal services. Noida: The RWA federation in Noida has raised objections to the proposal of the Authority to make waste segregation the responsibility of the residents associations and levy a charge for garbage collection.Maintaining that waste collection and disposal is the duty of the Noida Authority, the Federation of Noida Residents Welfare Associations (FONRWA) said on Friday that the authority would be able to generate huge income through sale of waste materials, such as card board, aluminium, bottles, tins, and several other re-usable items, and compost made out of wet garbage.According to FONRWA, residents of Noida have been taken aback on the issuance of an order by the Noida Authority, specifying the user charges for the various types of dwelling units/waste generators.“Whereas Noida Authority has not yet taken requisite steps on its part in accordance with the provisions of the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2016, such as formulation of composite rules, arrangement for authorised waste pickers etc, they have issued in a haste the order assigning households/RWAs to discharge certain obligations on their part,” said NP Singh, president, FONRWA.“The Authority is yet to finalise an agency as authorised collector of garbage from door to door, but has issued an order that households shall be obliged to segregate garbage w.e.f.

Noida: The RWA federation in Noida has raised objections to the proposal of the Authority to make waste segregation the responsibility of the residents associations and levy a charge for garbage collection.Maintaining that waste collection and disposal is the duty of the Noida Authority, the Federation of Noida Residents Welfare Associations (FONRWA) said on Friday that the authority would be able to generate huge income through sale of waste materials, such as card board, aluminium, bottles, tins, and several other re-usable items, and compost made out of wet garbage.According to FONRWA, residents of Noida have been taken aback on the issuance of an order by the Noida Authority, specifying the user charges for the various types of dwelling units/waste generators.“Whereas Noida Authority has not yet taken requisite steps on its part in accordance with the provisions of the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2016, such as formulation of composite rules, arrangement for authorised waste pickers etc, they have issued in a haste the order assigning households/RWAs to discharge certain obligations on their part,” said NP Singh, president, FONRWA.“The Authority is yet to finalise an agency as authorised collector of garbage from door to door, but has issued an order that households shall be obliged to segregate garbage w.e.f. July 1, 2018. In the absence of deployment of authorised pickers before the said date, whom shall the households handover the segregated waste,” he asked.According to the RWA federation, even if the lowest slab of Rs 25 is charged per family, the aggregated collection of user charges shall come to Rs 62.5 lakh per month (given the population of Noida is an estimated 10 lakh).“The Authority is obliged to provide such municipal services. Huge amount of income is expected from the sale of recyclable waste collected from home. So why the burden of waste collection charge is being levied on residents,” asked AN Dhawan, secretary general of FONRWA.“In public interest, we’ve urged CEO Alok Tandon that only part cost from various waste generators (excluding residents/families) may be levied for waste collection as residents have already paid for the municipal services in the leasehold costs and other costs of their properties,” he added.

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