The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to appoint a contractor for all work including waste collection and cleaning of public toilets and drains in slums.
Following Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s directives, civic authorities recently started a deep cleaning drive to improve sanitation measures in the city, especially in slums.
The civic body will spend INR 1,500 crores on cleaning the slums in the next four years. The tender for this will be invited soon.
Reports stated that around 50 per cent of the population of the city lives in slum areas. Currently, door-to-door waste collection is carried out by workers of a non-profit.
However, the NGOs appointed in the slum areas have failed to keep them clean, observed a civic official. So the BMC has come up with an idea to appoint one contractor for all cleaning work in the slums.
The contractor will be held responsible in case of negligence at work. He will be single-handedly responsible for collection of garbage, cleaning of lanes and roads as well as public toilets. The contractor will have to ensure that more manpower is diverted for door-to-door collection of garbage in the slums.
They will also ensure that the drainage systems are clean, so they do not get clogged. The nullahs get choked during every monsoon because of garbage and other floating material that is dumped in them.
It is pertinent to note that this initiative also came after the city’s ranking slipped from 31 to 37 in a national survey as it fared poorly in source segregation of garbage.
Later, Shinde also warned the civic authorities to improve the ranking, and said the effects of a cleanliness drive should be seen in the city.
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