GUWAHATI: Customized garbage collection vehicles will be seen in the streets of Guwahati soon, informed a highly-placed source at the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) to G Plus.
These vehicles, designed specifically to incorporate both dry waste and wet waste separately, are expected to be launched in September. The initiative has been taken after studying many cities of India and the cleanliness strategies adopted by the clean cities in the country, the source revealed.
He further added that two such vehicles have already been made and personnel has been trained to smoothly carry out the process of collection of waste after segregation. The project is expected to start full-fledged from September first week.
In September first week, the GMC is also mulling plans to formally launch the waste segregation project along with the Swachch Guwahati Squad.
GMC is divided into 31 wards and there is one NGO each assigned for the job of primary collection and street sweeping within their respective wards. These NGOs have assigned members to collect wet, as well as dry waste from all of the wards. While the wet waste products will be collected on a daily basis, dry waste will be collected twice a week - on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Earlier, the GMC had organized a cleanliness competition among the 31 Wards and 58 NGOs involved in the door-to-door garbage collection, with junior technical officers (JTOs) monitoring the cleanliness of the wards and the sanitary supervisors involved in the cleanliness process in every ward. The survey for the competition was conducted from May 1 and continued till July end, the results for which are yet to be announced.
