DW BUREAU / Chandigarh An awareness programme on door to door waste collection at source level and to promote segregation of waste was organised at community centre, sector 47, Chandigarh under Swachh Bharat Mission. K.K. Yadav, Municipal Commissioner was the chief guest during the programme which was attended by Davesh Moudgil, former Mayor and area councilor, Sorabh Arora, Joint Commissioner, Dr. Amrit Warring, Medical Officer of Health, prominent persons of area, office bearers of Resident Welfare Associations were also present during the programme. While welcoming all the office bearers of RWAs the Commissioner attributed the success of the clean city and collection of segregated waste from households through MCC vehicles in Chandigarh specially sectors from 1 to 30 to the waste collectors, sanitation staff and citizens of these sectors. He said that the MCC is going to start this facility in southern sectors from March 1, 2021 onwards falling sectors 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 38 West, 46, 47 and 48 by deploying nearly 70 vehicles in the second phase. He requested all the residents of these sectors to cooperate with the MCC by giving segregated waste i.e. dry and wet waste separately to the MCC waste collectors from March 1 onwards so that the same may be processed technically. Answering the questions of area residents, the Commissioner assured the residents to run the door to door waste collection through MCC vehicles in proper coordination with area residents in a sustainable manner. He said that issues including timing schedule of vehicles for waste collection in the streets, societies will be devised as per the requirement and keeping in view the needs of the residents. Elaborating about the Solid Waste Management system in Chandigarh, Davesh Moudgil said that the main objective of the programme was to recognize the issues, challenges and to understand the rules and to be aware of the various approaches, technologies to be adopted. He said that to plan to implement confirmed solutions in the city and to promote segregation of waste as per Solid Waste Management Rules for implementing the plans was the principal aim of the programme, he added. (editor@dailyworld.in)