2,600 bulk waste generators register with Gurugram MC, but only 400 managing garbage on their own

As many as 2,600 bulk waste generators (BWGs) have got themselves registered with the Municipal Corporation in Gurugram city, but all of them are not properly managing the solid waste at their own end. As per information, only 400 BWGs are managing the solid waste at their own end; therefore, the BWG monitoring cell constituted by the civic body has begun an exercise to conduct physical inspections and impose penalties on the ‘erring’ BWGs.

A majority of them are not complying with the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, which mandate responsible waste management, including segregation and proper disposal of wet, dry and hazardous waste

A total of 1,200 metric tonnes of solid waste is daily generated in the city that goes to the Bandhawari landfill site and other waste management facilities set up by the civic body.

The BWGs daily generate 220 tonnes of solid waste, out of which, only 62 tonnes is managed by them per day. The remaining waste is either handed over to the waste collection agencies or illegally dumped in the vacant plots and on the roadsides.

The Additional Commissioner of MCG, Mahavir Prasad, after presiding over a meeting of the BWG monitoring cell on Wednesday said they had stepped up physical verifications of the BWGs and imposed a fine of Rs 22 lakh on 86 BWGs in the past one month. A fine of Rs 25,000 is imposed on those BWGs that do not follow the rules.

“We have fixed a monthly target to conduct physical inspections of 100 BWGs in four zones and impose penalties on those who do not comply with the waste management rules,” he said, adding that the MCG would register FIRs against those BWGs that did not pay the fine.

The in-charge of the BWG monitoring cell, Colonel Sanjay Pandey (retired), said they had held a series of meetings with the BWGs in the past few months apprising them to follow the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, to make the city clean.

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