Category: NMC

The municipal administration has stressed that Nagpur city should be the top priority in cleanliness. But water is being diverted by the health department. Two companies will be appointed by the end of November as the Kanak Resources Company, which is responsible for collecting the waste from the houses, will be terminated. Citizens of the city are suffering because Kanak Resources Company is not conducting waste collection work as the deal will be terminated. Ramdaspeth, Civil Line, Dharampeth, Gokulpeth, Sitabardi, Itwari, Mahal and other areas are showing garbage piles. This has created the possibility of withdrawal of municipal corporation in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The efforts to bring Nagpur from the rankings to the top 5 cities in the Clean India Campaign have been dashed. The municipality has divided the city into two packages for garbage collection. Two companies have been recruited from Zone One to Five in Package-1 and from six to ten in Package-1. The deadline is 90 days to start the garbage collection work. Both companies want to start work on November 16. There is a need to collect garbage in two shifts. Therefore, additional vehicles will be required to replace the vehicles. But there are likely to be a lot of citizens in the process of working in the shift. Vehicles collecting garbage were arriving daily in posh settlements like Ramdasepet, Dantoli, Dharampeth, Civil Line, Gokulpeth, Lakshminagar, Pratapnagar. But this has led to irregularities since Kanak’s decision to cancel the deal. The lifting mechanism is collapsed. In this case, the unimportant cure for the suburbs. According to the information received, there is no garbage in the outlying areas of North, East, South Nagpur. Therefore, citizens have to waste garbage on waste roads or open plots. Cleaning staff were provided with GPS watches. But that doesn’t seem to be much use. They have an arbitrary start. The overall sanitation system in the city is shaky. Kanak should do as he has decided. Commissioner Abhijit Bangar has taken the matter that garbage is not collected daily from house to house. The more years Kanak signed, the more time he was given. The tender was removed. But Kanak did not qualify. So new companies were hired. As long as Kanak has a responsibility. Until then, the work must be done as decided. If garbage collection vehicles do not come daily, citizens should complain to the Health Department, Zone Office. That will lead to appropriate action. It is the responsibility of the municipality to settle the complaints regarding cleanliness. Abhijit Bangar, Commissioner Municipal Corporation.
Appointed two companies
The municipal administration is working on a new system for collecting waste from the home and market areas. Two companies have been appointed for this. It contains a. Yes. Enviro Infra Project Pvt. Ltd. Thane and BVG India Limited, Pune. Both companies have to start work on November 16. In a month and a half, 472 vehicles, over 1500 manpower, infrastructure will be installed. Thereafter, the collection of waste from the house to house will be started. There is a variety of conditions involved.  The controversy before appointment For two packages, BVG India Limited 1656 had tendered the collection of waste at the rate of Rs.1800 However, the company can work for only one of these packages according to the conditions. So the company agreed to work for package two. Package J is a second-ranked Ag. The company has announced that it will pay more than Rs.1900. This will increase the financial burden of billions of rupees on the municipality. There are 100 garbage collection stations in the city. This is where waste is stored. In the new system, ten transfer stations will be set up.

As a part of its annual surprise special drive in a very bid to curb rash driving of Tankers or Tanker driving while not valid licence/documents, The Orange town Water conducted a drive at its own tanker services at Wanjari Nagar ESR/Hydrant, Lakadganj ESR and varied different locations in town. A special team comprised of mister Prakash Mahajan (Security Head), mister Amit Gedam (Safety Head), mister Praveen Sharan (Head Tanker Operations) Sachin Dravekar (Head: PR & CGRC), conducted surprise check raids at numerous locations and checked documents of all tanker operators, particularly licences etc. It should be mentioned that it had been recently alleged and highlighted by some open-eyed voters that tankers were operated by minors while not correct valid licence documents etc. On the occasion, Tanker Drivers were additionally given steerage concerning careful operations of tankers whereas plying in densely inhabited town areas. It should be mentioned here OCW special groups conduct such surprise check drive annually, particularly in summer season the least bit locations. OCW tanker Management Team has its watch on the tanker operations in town. Despite that, if voters found some malpractices or something wrong with tankers operations they will directly decision or post an image at OCW CGRC 7028903636 or OCW Toll-Free No 18002669899. It may be mentioned here variety of Tankers have additionally been reduced particularly in Network space to seventy-two currently, that depicts Improvement in water system state of affairs in town areas with regular O&M activities and current 24×7 conversions in several areas.

It may be mentioned here the Tanker operations within the town of Nagpur was divided into 2 elements from Feb 2014: 1) Network space (N W) Tankers operated by OCW solely & 2) Non-Network (NNW) areas Tankers operated by Nagpur Municipal Corporation. It may be mentioned here for economical, economical and effective Tanker Water Management, OCW has additionally incorporated GPS Technology in Tanker Operations to bring transparency in the system. OCW has put in VTU (Vessel trailing Unit) on Tankers that ensures that the entire life cycle of water delivery by Tanker, ranging from receipt of client request until delivery of water is monitored. The changeless trailing of tankers has resulted in restraint of the sooner prevailing malpractices. It’s an important technological implementation that saves organization’s value and ends up in stoppage of malpractices. It may be conjointly mentioned here, within the year 2014, OCW CEO; adult male. Sanjoy Roy took the daring initiative against all odds to recruit the ladies and deploy them to manage Tankers. This was for the primary time girls Power gave probability to manage Tanker Management. Mr Roy had a firm belief that their presence will definitely amendment the operating atmosphere at the Tanker Hydrants for higher. nowadays his call stands clean-handed as within the last 3- years the general work culture at the Tanker hydrants has well improved. There is virtually no disturbance at the locations wherever these girls Power is posted; they need higher management on the supplying management that has resulted in improved shopper satisfaction.

To push people to discard the use of plastic bags Municipal Corporation (NMC) is undertaking an awareness campaign. The campaign will be undertaken till October 27, Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to people to stop the use of single-use plastic bags. The civic body will be implementing the ban on single-use plastic starting with its Central office and extending then to Zonal offices, hospitals and in its schools. Maharashtra Government has already banned single-use plastic, still, she said that one needs to constantly push citizens for reaching the ultimate goal of the plastic-free city, Addressing a press conference on Monday, said Mayor Nanda Jichkar.

With the help of NGOs, NSS and school students to reach every household and make a fervent appeal on avoiding single-use plastic Rallies are planned in each ward. The plastic lying by the roadside would be collected to ensure cleanliness in the area during the rallies. All the public representatives would participate in the rallies and make an appeal to citizens for joining the plastic-free campaign. NMC has increased number of persons in nuisance detection squads (NDS) with the recruitment of 46 more besides previous 41 to enforce a plastic ban. They are not targeting individuals but also targeting units where single-use plastic bags are manufactured said, Civic officials.

Maximum manufacturing facilities are in Gandhibagh and Satranjipura Zone where raids were carried out in May to prevent its sale in the market. The officials informed against a seller in Laxmi Nagar Zone, One FIR was also registered. During 2013-15 besides seizure of the material a fine of Rs. 44,35,300 was collected from the use of plastic. For its effective disposal, the plastic collected would be handed to the third party.  Now many units are engaged in recycling of plastic and making innovative items from them like school bags, thread etc. Fervent appeal to citizens to ensure that this Diwali is free of single-use plastic was made by a mayor.