The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) along with its East Delhi counterpart is going to start a zero waste management project on a pilot basis in Dwarka and West Vinod Nagar area.“The aim is to integrate and formalise the services of ragpickers. These people work in extremely unhealthy environmental conditions. The need of the hour is to bring them under the formal system of collection, segregation, transportation and disposal of wastes,” said SDMC commissioner Manish Gupta, who is also the acting Commissioner of East MCD.
Under the zero waste management initiative, these ragpickers will be organised by NGOs and each one of them would be allotted 150 households. The municipal corporation will provide them support with infrastructure and protective gears like gloves, uniform, bins, rickshaw and identity cards. The ragpickers will collect dry and wet waste separately from every house and will also charge a nominal fee of Rs 30 per month for it.
The waste will be transported to the facility centre. The wet wastes will be put into biomechanisation plants to generate methane gas which in turn could be used for producing electricity. The wastes like peels of fruits and vegetables will be dumped in compost pits while the remaining will be sent to the landfill. “Under the zero waste management initiative, these recyclable wastes will be increased to about 70 per cent,” said Gupta.
PK Gupta, commissioner of North MCD said, “We are planning to come out with a scheme to organise them into a cooperative society and give them the responsibility of maintaining the public urinals and toilets so that they get more income. Also, protective gears would be prodivided to them save them any kind of health hazard.”
Under the zero waste management initiative, these ragpickers will be organised by NGOs and each one of them would be allotted 150 households. The municipal corporation will provide them support with infrastructure and protective gears like gloves, uniform, bins, rickshaw and identity cards. The ragpickers will collect dry and wet waste separately from every house and will also charge a nominal fee of Rs 30 per month for it.
The waste will be transported to the facility centre. The wet wastes will be put into biomechanisation plants to generate methane gas which in turn could be used for producing electricity. The wastes like peels of fruits and vegetables will be dumped in compost pits while the remaining will be sent to the landfill. “Under the zero waste management initiative, these recyclable wastes will be increased to about 70 per cent,” said Gupta.
PK Gupta, commissioner of North MCD said, “We are planning to come out with a scheme to organise them into a cooperative society and give them the responsibility of maintaining the public urinals and toilets so that they get more income. Also, protective gears would be prodivided to them save them any kind of health hazard.”