Trichy: Hardly four months have passed since the Quick Response code-enabled waste collection practice was implemented here, but the model has persistently failed to ensure routine waste collection from residents at their doorstep. Several parts of the city have been witnessing slackness in door-to-door waste collection with the civic body’s vehicles showing up only once in three to five days, forcing residents to dump the accumulated waste on the road.Trichy corporation had covered all four zones here under QR-code enabled waste collection in a phased manner since December 2018 to ensure accountability in the exercise carried out door-to-door. Accordingly, a supervisor visiting the houses to collect waste in vehicles will scan the unique code given for recording the individual coverage by every waste collection vehicle. The system was thus intended to make non-cooperative residents fall in line and ensure maximum coverage by waste collection vehicles. However, in the past one month, residents in various parts of the city have been complaining of irregular collection. “The vehicle comes once every 5 days, that too after repeated calls to the sanitary supervisor or the waste collection driver,” says P Sudhakar, a representative of the gated community in Cantonment.Citing the delay in collecting waste at the doorstep, residents in Cantonment, K K Nagar and E Pudur have been dumping waste on vacant parcels of land. Lapses on the part of the sanitary officials in ensuring that the waste collection vehicles, run on contract basis and by self help groups (SHG), covered the households have been mainly blamed for this problem. Poor follow-up of data obtained from the QR code system recording the coverage of each vehicle is another reason. Though more than 170 mini load vans are engaged in waste collection, the sanitary officials are yet to take note of the residents’ disappointment with the waste collection . “We will look into the complaints of residents. Additional vehicles have been launched for door-to-door waste collection and the irregularities will be resolved,” an official with Trichy corporation added.

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