200 tonnes of trash left out to rot daily
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KANPUR:
The garbage collection and disposal system was expected to improve two
years ago with the launch of solid waste management system by Kanpur
Municipal Corporation and A2Z Infrastructure but it did not happen.
Mismanagement and shortage of manpower led to the failure of joint
venture. The city is stinking.
The two bodies are jointly engaged in removing the garbage but heaps could be seen at several places. According to data provided by the KMC, the city is producing about 1,200 tonnes of garbage everyday. The corporation and A2Z are removing around 1,000 tonnes of garbage daily. Thus, around 200 tonnes of garbage is left daily to rot. Within a few days, this backlog turns into huge dumps in various localities.
A2Z Infrastructures, a Gurgoan-based company, which has been assigned the task of waste collection from households and transportation to the dumping ground in Bhauti, has failed to do its task properly. The contract for waste collection was given to this firm around two years ago. Under the contract, 1,200 tonnes of garbage generated in the city would be segregated into different categories. Out of this, 40% was to be used for fuel and electricity, 15% for manure, 5% for plastic manufacture and 5 to 10% was to be used in making bricks and tiles. The remaining wastage, mixed with earth, was to be buried in the ground.
Presently, A2Z is generating around 5 mw against proposed 15 megawatts and preparing manure.
An official of A2Z informed that his firm was lifting 600 tonnes of garbage per day from 95 wards of zone 4, 5 and 6. His employees were collecting garbage in respective wards of zones. He claimed that company had engaged the workforce of about 1,000 persons and mechanical force of 120 vehicles, including 18 dumpers for garbage lifting. "We work round-the-clock in two shifts," he claimed.
KMC claimed that its employees were removing garbage from the remaining 15 wards of zone number 1, 2 and 3. They are also engaged in lifting the garbage from other zones too.
Situation was improving but it would take time, an official of KMC claimed.
Residents of Babupurwa and some neighbouring wards had complained that A2Z men were not collecting household garbage. Moreover heaps of garbage could be seen at dumping sites.
"The A2Z worker came to my house on Monday. No one had come to the locality after that. When we ask the worker the reason for his absence, he did not give a satisfactory reply. The workers often misbehave with us," said Uday, a resident of Shankaracharya Nagar.
Saroj Gupta, living in posh K-Block, said that the residents are forced to throw garbage in the nearby park in the absence of A2Z workers.
An official of A2Z claimed that situation was worse a few months ago. Now it was improving. Efforts would be made to lift the garbage accumulated in various areas.
The two bodies are jointly engaged in removing the garbage but heaps could be seen at several places. According to data provided by the KMC, the city is producing about 1,200 tonnes of garbage everyday. The corporation and A2Z are removing around 1,000 tonnes of garbage daily. Thus, around 200 tonnes of garbage is left daily to rot. Within a few days, this backlog turns into huge dumps in various localities.
A2Z Infrastructures, a Gurgoan-based company, which has been assigned the task of waste collection from households and transportation to the dumping ground in Bhauti, has failed to do its task properly. The contract for waste collection was given to this firm around two years ago. Under the contract, 1,200 tonnes of garbage generated in the city would be segregated into different categories. Out of this, 40% was to be used for fuel and electricity, 15% for manure, 5% for plastic manufacture and 5 to 10% was to be used in making bricks and tiles. The remaining wastage, mixed with earth, was to be buried in the ground.
Presently, A2Z is generating around 5 mw against proposed 15 megawatts and preparing manure.
An official of A2Z informed that his firm was lifting 600 tonnes of garbage per day from 95 wards of zone 4, 5 and 6. His employees were collecting garbage in respective wards of zones. He claimed that company had engaged the workforce of about 1,000 persons and mechanical force of 120 vehicles, including 18 dumpers for garbage lifting. "We work round-the-clock in two shifts," he claimed.
KMC claimed that its employees were removing garbage from the remaining 15 wards of zone number 1, 2 and 3. They are also engaged in lifting the garbage from other zones too.
Situation was improving but it would take time, an official of KMC claimed.
Residents of Babupurwa and some neighbouring wards had complained that A2Z men were not collecting household garbage. Moreover heaps of garbage could be seen at dumping sites.
"The A2Z worker came to my house on Monday. No one had come to the locality after that. When we ask the worker the reason for his absence, he did not give a satisfactory reply. The workers often misbehave with us," said Uday, a resident of Shankaracharya Nagar.
Saroj Gupta, living in posh K-Block, said that the residents are forced to throw garbage in the nearby park in the absence of A2Z workers.
An official of A2Z claimed that situation was worse a few months ago. Now it was improving. Efforts would be made to lift the garbage accumulated in various areas.
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