Bhubaneswar, Aug. 18: The civic body has decided to install 200 large waste bins and also provide 128 new waste-carrier trolleys to its staff for the 10 municipal wards where it manages sanitation itself.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will spend Rs 80,000 on dustbins and Rs 44,000 for the trolleys.

"We have already doubled the number of waste-bins. Now, we have decided to focus on the wards where we manage sanitation ourselves," said mayor Ananta Narayan Jena.

"We are committed to maintaining cleanliness in the city. The waste bins will be installed within two months," he said.

Private sanitation agencies have been entrusted with the cleanliness job in 57 of the 67 wards under the municipal corporation. In the remaining 10 wards, the civic body manages sanitation itself.

City residents allege that the sanitation scenario is particularly poor in the wards managed by the civic body.

"Waste remains strewn across the road in the presence of dustbins. Even where there are dustbins, they are no longer in a usable condition. The civic body installed colour-coded bins for bio-degradable and non-bio-degradable waste a few months back," said Bikash Nayak, a resident of Chandrasekharpur.

"But those, too, are of no use," he added.

The wards where the municipal corporation manages sanitation includes some of the major localities of Bhubaneswar - Mancheswar, Hanspal, Chandrasekharpur, Nayapalli, Badagada, Unit-IX, Kharavela Nagar, Jagadev Nagar, parts of Jayadev Vihar, Swadhin Nagar, parts of Rasulgarh and a few more areas.

Nayapalli resident Tirlok Behera said that though the civic officials regularly lifted garbage from their area, most of the bins overflowed in no time as they were less than adequate in number.

"The sanitation staff come here to lift garbage twice a day. But even that is not enough to clean the area. The civic body should install more bins," said Behera, a mobile phone shop owner.

A senior civic official said they decided to replace the old bins with new ones as most of the large bins in the BMC-managed wards outlived their age and were in a decayed condition.

"We have enough officials to take care of cleanliness. But we need to have enough equipment to handle waste. Our job will get easier with the installation of new bins and trolleys," said the official.