Cuttack: The municipal corporation is all set to enforce a wide range of penalty provisions with the implementation of the Solid Waste Management Project, 2016, in the city.

"The provisions will be put into effect along with the five-year contract with the private operator who has emerged as the lowest bidder for implementing the Rs 147 crore project," municipal commissioner Bikash Ranjan Mohapatra said. "The penalty provisions have been included along with the scope of work to ensure that the private operator works properly," he said.

Metro Waste Handling Private Limited from New Delhi emerged as the lowest bidder after the financial bids opened on Thursday.

The five-year integrated solid waste management project, involves sweeping, collection, storage, segregation, tra-nsportation, composting and disposal of solid waste at the existing land fill site.

As part of the five-year contract, the private operator will take up sweeping in 40 of the 59 wards, door to door collection of garbage from 59 wards and mechanised sweeping of identified main roads in all 59 wards, transportation of garbage to transfer station and mechanised forward transportation to the dumping site at Chakradharpur.

According to the contract, the penalty provisions includes, Rs 50 per day (per house of default) in case municipal solid waste was not collected for more than one day (24 hours) from any household, Rs 100 per day per unit of default if municipal solid waste was not collected for more than one day (24 hours) from commercial, institutional, industrial and other units and Rs 250 will be charged per bit for default of sweeping in the area.

A bit is a division of the ward under municipality

There are more than 1.20 lakh households with nearly 6.3lakh population in the municipal area spread over 152sqkm. A penalty of Rs1000 will be imposed on the private operator per bin in case of overflowing of waste bins for more than 24 hours. In case these bins are not cleared for more than 24 hours, the private operator will have to pay a penalty of Rs 250 per bit.

"The provisions have been included as part of mechanism for monitoring garbage collection work," said the chairman of corporation's standing committee for licence and appeal, Bikash Ranjan Behera.

The contract also includes a penalty of Rs 5000 per incident of transportation of waste to location other than designated disposal site.