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Waste segregation drive launched in Punjab after NGT rap



After being repeatedly pulled up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over the problem of inadequate waste processing infrastructure in major cities, the Punjab Local Bodies Department has initiated a major drive on garbage segregation at the source.Based on the success of models in the Mansa, Khanna, Malout and Patti civic bodies, the department has now asked all urban local bodies (ULBs) to streamline the waste segregation by organising safai karamcharis in the private sector for door-to-door collection. Officials said to counter the “politically connected” safai karamacharis, the ULBs have been given a tender document detailing the waste segregation guidelines.“To ensure that there was no backlash, the door-to-door private garbage collectors, who are already working in the field, are being encouraged to form societies and professionally run waste collection and segregation. Such workers will be entitled to medical and other benefits. We have done this in the Mansa, Malout, Patti Municipal Councils,” said a senior government functionary.The Khanna civic body has launched a pilot project, under which the waste will be collected and segregated door-to-door. Later, it will be segregated at a plant. In Mohali, the civic body has roped in a contractor for waste collection and segregation to enable an end-to-end, tech-enabled and efficient waste management system in compliance with the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.Punjab has been struggling to bridge the gap between the quantity of solid waste generated and the capacity of its 167 urban local bodies to treat it. Last year, the state government admitted before the NGT that only 41 per cent of the solid waste generated in the state was being treated.As per the latest official data, the state generated a total of 4,376 tonnes per day (TPD) of solid waste. Of this, only 2,200 TPD was being processed.The urban bodies in four major centres — Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Patiala — are processing less than half of the waste they generated. About 3,000 tonnes of waste is collected in Punjab every day by 13 municipal corporations. The department is working towards addressing legacy waste, which consists of waste collected and stored for extended periods in barren land or designated landfill sites.

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