JAIPUR: Though new garbage collection vehicles or hoopers have arrived in Walled City wards, the sanitation woes continue as piles of trash can be seen at several places.
One hooper each is provided in 100 wards, but it is not sufficient to carry out the task. Recently, Civil Lines has received eight new hoopers, but the condition is yet to improve.
Rekha Rathore, councillor of Ward 47 from Civil Lines zone, who went to distribute kites in her neighbourhood, said that people complained about garbage everywhere. “People have been registering around 100 complaints every day despite cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachairyawas belonging to this area. We have written hundreds of times to corporations, but with just one hooper things will remain the same. We need new hoopers immediately,” said Rathore.
Every zone has invited its own tenders for renting new hoopers, but only Civil Lines and Adarsh Nagar zones have received new hoopers. Amber and Hawa Mahal zone are yet to receive the hoopers. The number of hoopers supplied is also not satisfactory and corporation officials said that it will take around a month to receive at least 100 hoopers.
“Slowly hoopers are getting ready and amended as per the need of the corporation. We are sure that within a month, around 100 hoopers will arrive in every ward and the rest will keep on coming,” said a corporation official anonymously.
One hooper each ward is not enough due to which garbage depots are back in their original place. Many new depots have emerged with people not having any option on how to clean up the space.
Councillor Umar Daraj said that he has received so many complaints from people but due to fewer resources they are left with no option than to wait for new hoopers.
In Gangori market, a resident Kamal Kumar said that twice he was slipped due to the drains being choked up with garbage. Although once corporation cleaned up the garbage but now things have again gone to a similar situation, he said.
