Bhubaneswar, Oct. 11: The civic body will put up 200 large metal waste bins and also provide new handcarts and tricycles to sanitation workers for management of solid waste in 10 wards in the city.

The bins will be installed at strategic locations, where the sanitation workers will dump the garbage after collecting it from households. The waste will then be transported via waste-carrying vehicles to the designated dump yard of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation at Bhuasuni.

The corporation decided to put up the new bins after receiving a number of complaints from the citizens about the bad and broken condition of the old or existing bins at several places. Moreover, the waste in the old bins often gets out of it through the holes, citizens said.

"The existing bins are no longer in a situation to use. Many are left broken since they are used extensively. Since these can't be repaired, the civic body should install the new bins," said Mancheswar resident Minati Hota.

Of the total 67 wards, sanitation in 57 wards are managed by three private sanitary agencies in the city.

Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena said that in February, they had doubled the number of waste bins across the city.

"We had already provided enough number of waste bins to manage solid waste. Now, we will replace the old and broken bins with new ones," he said.

Besides, the corporation has also decided to procure 80 tricycles and 48 handcarts and provide those to the sanitary workers.

Here again, the need of procuring the carts and the cycles was felt because of the old and broken condition of the same.

"It is a good move of the civic body to replace its old bins and carts with the new ones since they are of no use. Due to the broken carts, the waste often spread on to the road during transportation. It also gets out of the broken bins triggering a filthy and fetid environment around," said Omkar Nath, a resident of Chandrasekharpur.