Hear the whistle, dispose of trash on your doorstep.
Four lakh residents in non-Tata areas under Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC), which suffered from poorer civic upkeep, will by September-end get door-to-door garbage collection facility.
In the first phase, from September 16, JNAC will depute garbage collectors across eight of 12 wards under its command, who will blow the whistle in the mornings to alert households to hand over domestic trash. The four other wards will get the facility by September-end.
"We have finalised tenders and work orders will be issued in a day or two to start the door-to-door collection in eight wards. The tender process for rest four wards should be over before month-end. All 12 wards will see door-to-door collection by month-end," said JNAC special officer Dipak Sahay.
According to rough estimates, JNAC areas generate 70 tonnes of trash a day. So far, in all 12 JNAC wards, in the absence of a planned collection system, households dumped garbage indiscriminately, which JNAC contractual workers later collected.
Often, delay in clearing garbage from near buildings or roadsides leads to rotting heaps of trash, stench and health hazards.
The eight wards that will see collection of garbage from doorsteps from September 16 are east zone A (Baridih, Bagun Nagar and Naga Dungri); east zone C (Laxminagar, Jemco, Manifit, Jojobera, Inder Singh Area and Burmamines); central zone A (Refugee Colony, Gurdwara Basti, East Bengal Colony, Deo Nagar, New Court Campus, Hume Pipe Road, Patel Nagar, Indranagar and Teachers Colony); central zone B (Bhuiyandih, Gwala Basti, Chhayanagar, Chandinagar, Old Court Campus); western zone A (Anil Sur Path, Bhatiya Basti, Uliyan, Govindnagar); western zone B (Shastrinagar, Baldev Basti, Gangotri Nursing Home Road, Ramjanam Bhatta); western zone C (Air Base Colony, Shyam Nagar, Ramnagar, Balvihar Road, Arogya Bhavan Road); and western zone D (Swarn Vihar Road, Kapali Basti, Sidhu Kanhu Basti, Nirmal Nagar and Circuit House).
Four wards to get the facility by month-end are east zone B (Bagunhatu, Ramdev Bagan, Vidyapati Nagar, Tata Foundry Quarters, Vijaynagar, Shiv Singh Bagan), east zone D (Ramadhin Bagan, Cable Basti, Kailash Nagar), Birsanagar zone A (Birsanagar Sunday Market, Jahartola, Moharda) and Birsanagar zone B (Kallu Bagan and remaining areas of Birsanagar).
Each zone will have a team of 25 waste collectors with rickshaw trolleys. They will collect garbage, transfer it to mini-vans and then to the garbage collector van to finally carry it to the disposal site at Bara, Sidhgora. There are 22 mini vans, two dumpers and one JCB (excavator) for garbage disposal.
