Segregate waste at home before disposal: Mohali mayor to residents

While addressing the gathering, Mayor Sidhu said that he has started this awareness campaign from his ward and it will be expanded to the entire city of Mohali.

By: Express News Service

September 14, 2025 07:24 PM IST

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Mayor Amarjit Singh Jeeti Sidhu (with a blue dustbin in hand) during an awareness campaign in ward no. 10 in Mohali on Sunday. (Express Photo)

Mayor Amarjit Singh Jeeti Sidhu Sunday launched an awareness campaign from his own ward, No. 10, regarding handing over segregated wet and dry waste to door-to-door waste collectors. Along with this, the Municipal Corporation also began waste collection through its own vehicle.

While addressing the gathering, Mayor Sidhu said that he has started this awareness campaign from his ward and it will be expanded to the entire city of Mohali. He said that 180 vehicles of the Municipal Corporation will go from door to door to collect waste, and the people who were earlier collecting garbage through carts will be employed for this task so that their livelihood is not affected. He said that a resolution regarding this was passed in the last meeting of the Municipal Corporation, and now the work has been started.

He stated that the biggest challenge in Mohali is that around 100 to 150 tonnes of waste is generated or comes into the city daily. Without segregation, when this waste reaches the RMC (resource managment centre) points, it takes three to four days to segregate it, during which the wet waste starts rotting and foul smell arises. This not only makes it difficult to pass through the area but also creates the risk of diseases spreading.

Mayor Sidhu added that if waste is segregated at the household level before disposal, there will be no need for segregation again at RMC points. Wet waste can be lifted separately and dry waste separately, ensuring daily clearance without any problem.

Citing examples of segregation points in Phase 5 and Phase 11, he said that the condition there had become so bad that people had even postponed their weddings. Relatives avoided visiting such houses, and tenants refused to rent accommodation due to the foul smell.

He added that Mohali residents are highly aware citizens and are being sensitised by the Municipal Corporation. People are being guided to keep two separate bins at home — a blue bin for dry waste and a green bin for wet waste.

The mayor also pointed out that often while disposing of kitchen waste, women put broken crockery, glass pieces, spoons, etc, into the waste bag, which stray animals consume and fall sick, sometimes even die. He said he himself runs a cowshed, and whenever a cow dies and post-mortem is done, several kilos of polythene packets, glass shards, and sharp objects are found in their stomachs. He appealed to the residents of Mohali to keep such sharp objects in a separate box and inform the waste collectors so they can be disposed of properly.

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He said that the MC workers will go from door to door to spread this message and create awareness, so that waste can be disposed of properly without causing any inconvenience to the residents of Mohali.

Sidhu also announced another campaign being launched by the MC, under which staff will check every household for coolers, flowerpots, and other items where clean water stagnates, as dengue is spreading. He said that stagnant water breeds mosquitoes that spread dengue.

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