Chandigarh, April 16 - Haryana Chief Minister,  Sh. Manohar Lal while chairing a meeting of the High Powered Working  Committee held here today accorded approval regarding a proposal to hire an agency for door-to-door garbage collection, transportation  and processing of solid waste in urban areas of Panchkula. Urban Local Bodies Minister, Dr. Kamal Gupta also remained present in the meeting.

During the meeting, the Chief Minister was apprised that a contract has been given to a private for the next one year for ensuring cleanliness and proper disposal of garbage in Panchkula district. 

Along with the door to door collection, the agency will also ensure transportation and processing for disposal of waste. Garbage will be collected from Panchkula city and dumped at Patvi in Ambala.

Sh. Manohar Lal was apprised that about 200 tonnes of garbage is estimated to be generated per day from about 70,000  households  in Panchkula city.

The Chief Minister directed the officers to install GPS on vehicles as well as RFID in all houses to ensure door to door collection of waste.  With this, on one hand the lifting of waste from every house will be ensured, on the other the actual information will also be available with the corporation and the officers will be able to closely monitor the collection process.

Directing the officers, Sh. Manohar Lal said that in any municipal corporation area of the state, the civic body should run a pilot project at their own level, under which the sanitation workers of the corporation should do door-to-door collection of waste.

Urban Local Bodies Minister Dr. Kamal Gupta said that the Chief Minister is making efforts to make Panchkula a smart city and has already visited various sites for solid waste management.

He directed the officers that special monitoring should be kept on door to door collection.

Mayor, Panchkula, Sh.  Kulbhushan Goyal, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Sh. Anurag Rastogi, Additional Chief Secretary, Urban Local Bodies Department, Sh.  Arun Gupta, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. V Umashankar and other officers also  remained present in the meeting.