Mounting garbage: Khadki residents up in arms

“Though a vehicle comes to our house to collect the garbage,but waste is not segregated into degredable and non-degradable waste. The plastic and polythene bags and even the glass shards mix in the waste. We have asked the cantonment board to provide either two vehicles or place two bins in the collection van to segregate the waste,” said P B Garsund,secretrary of Khadki Citizen’s Forum.

But Fernandes says in their society the door-to-door collection vehicles don’t come to collect the waste.

“The people either throw it on the road or in the dumping ground.”

Elected member of the KCB Sunil Jadhav said,“The door-to-door collection vehicles miss most of the places. At places where they have to take at least 3-4 trips they remain contended with only lesser number of trips.”

However,KCB vice-president Manish Anand,said,”The vehicles go to most of the places in the cantonment board area.”

He however said that the vehicles go daily on an appointed time only to a particular area while as the people were expecting that they should visit the area as per their convenience.

“The vehicle goes in a particular time while as the people expect that it must come as per their convenience. The moment they are out on the road with the garbage people expect it should be there. It must be due to this that the garbage is thrown on the road.”

Anand said that the cantonment has a large dumping ground at Kasarwadi where they have deployed the people who not only segregate the waste but also dump it there.

“We have deployed our staff at the Kasarwadi. The Hingri Nath society ground is not our permanent dumping ground. We only unload the waste there and then collect it in large vehicles to the Kasarwadi dumping ground.” Jadhav however said that officials need to regularise the visits of the vehicles and also go into the interiors of the area to collect the garbage.