Gurugram civic body claims 100% waste being collected at doorstep; residents say ground reality different
India Today
The Commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) Mukesh Kumar Ahuja said the city had achieved 100% door-to-door garbage collection. The claims of the MCG were denied by the environmentalists and residents.
The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has claimed that they have achieved 100 per cent door-to-door garbage collection in the city and 70 per cent of the waste is segregated at the source. The civic body claimed that the number of waste-burning hotspots had been reduced, but the residents and environmentalists said that the situation is very different on the ground. Residents of the city have always complained to the authorities about the problem of open waste-burning in Gurugram.
Addressing a two-day Dialogue Towards Clean Air, MCG commissioner, Mukesh Kumar Ahuja, said that the garbage vulnerable points (GVP) has come down from 40 to 20 in the city. Ahuja further claimed that the city has achieved 100 per cent success in door-to-door collection of waste, Hindustan Times said in a report.
In November last year, the civic body decided to collect only segregated waste from households across the city. The waste must be segregated in three separate bins, categorised as biodegradable, dry and rejected sanitary waste (medical waste) and the segregated waste will be collected from households in the same manner. Around the same time, the Centre selected Gurugram as the garbage-free city (GFC) as a part of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM).
Ahuja said special squads have been formed to reduce the burning of waste in hotspots such as market areas, residential complexes and slums and their number has been brought down to zero. According to officials, it took them three months- from October to December last year to reduce the number of GVPs from 40 to 20, the report said.
"Now there are only a few stray incidents of waste being burnt in the open," he added.
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The claims made by the commissioner of MCG were outrightly dismissed by the environmentalists and residents of the city.
