The residents of Dehradun can complain to the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) if they see anyone not dumping their domestic garbage in the door to door garbage collection vehicles. In the last few months, the roadside dumping of garbage has become quite common in most of the wards of the city.
The Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) that manages sanitation facilities like the door to door service in 69 wards out of 100 wards has claimed that only households they might be unable to collect waste from are those where the residents are not available to hand over their garbage.
However, the officials have stated that those who refrain from disposing of garbage in the door to door service might be responsible for the garbage accumulated on the roadsides and other public areas. Stating that the locals need to be more responsible in the city regarding their garbage disposal, the chief municipal health officer Dr Kailash Joshi stated that if anyone observes that their neighbours do not dispose of their garbage through the door to door service, they can complain about it in the municipal corporation. “If a person is not dumping garbage through the door to door service, it means he or she is probably dumping it somewhere else in the city. Such people are the main reason for the garbage accumulation in the roadside areas of Dehradun,” said Joshi.
Though the MCD is planning to send notices to such people and even impose a penalty on them, Joshi said that locals can complain about those who evidently refrain from dumping garbage in the door to door service of the corporation.
Saturday, 28 November 2020 | PNS | Dehradun
