LUCKNOW: As many as 73 open dumping points in the city will be closed by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) this month, bringing relief to residents who have been complaining about problems due to the rotting pileups for long.
These sites are in several areas, including New Hyderabad, Aliganj, Jankipuram, Raqabganj, Aashiana, Aishbagh, Nishatganj and Chowk. The directives to shut these dumping points have been issued by city mayor Sanyukta Bhatia.
Till now the practice was that after collecting door-to-door garbage from a locality, workers used to dump the waste at a point designated by the LMC. Later, trucks used to shift garbage to the solid waste treatment plant at Shiviri.
Now, officials said the garbage will be dumped directly on trucks mounted with compactors. A truck each has been allotted for a site. These compactors will crush the garbage to accommodate maximum possible in a single load and then transfer it to the treatment plant, they added.
“Earlier, garbage used to lie in the open for some time at the dumping sites before being picked by the trucks. But now it will be directly loaded on the truck, hence the problem of garbage rotting in open and creating problems for people will not arise,” said an officer. Such a garbage disposal system is currently being followed in Pune and Indore.
There are around 179 such dumping points in the city. Around 1,600 metric tonnes of garbage is collected at these points daily. “Our goal is to make the city free of all the open garbage dumping sites,” said the mayor.
