GVMC to impose fines if waste not segregated
The GVMC has made a council resolution and brought out a gazette notification to this effect.
Visakhapatnam: Apartments and gated communities need to be careful while dumping waste at house bins as the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation will not collect wastes from apartment complexes and gated communities from December 1 if dry and wet waste are found mixed.The GVMC has made a council resolution and brought out a gazette notification to this effect.
If apartment dwellers resort to dumping trash in the nearby places against the regulations, penalties ranging from Rs100 to Rs 500 will be imposed on the violators. The Central Pollution Control Board had issued a notice to the GVMC to adhere to the solid waste management rules 2016. “Bulk generators of waste, who are producing more than 100 kg trash every day, shall convert it into compost and we have also made a council resolution for this,” said GVMC Commissioner M. Hari Narayanan.
The city is generating on an average 1,000 tonne of waste per day out of which 30% is the wet waste. At present, only 105 tonne is being segregated at source causing inconvenience to GVMC sanitary workers. GVMC is also engaging rag-pickers to implement the garbage segregation initiative.The GVMC is currently getting segregated wet waste to the tune of 120 metric tonne each day and it wants to take the segregated garbage to 250 metric tonne out of the total waste of about 1100 metric tonne a day.