CCP’s Solution: OUTSOURCING

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22 Dec 2014, 7:05 pm

The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) is planning on outsourcing the garbage management in the State capital. This will include the sweeping of roads, the collection of leaves, horticultural waste as well as medical and other types of waste.

According to the Corporation’s plan, waste collection has been divided into eight distinct slots and any one contractor can be given a maximum of two of them. Also, the CCP envisages that the contract will be awarded for three years.

“This will ensure that we get good rates,” says CCP Commissioner Sanjit Rodrigues, “We will set up benchmarks and the contractor can be pulled up in case he does not do the work up to our standards.”

The CCP jurisdiction has been divided in waste management zones.

Package 1: Door-to-door collection of wet waste and dry waste from all the residential units that includes buildings, bungalows, commercial establishments and bins or bags kept at predetermined collection points in the waste management zone.

Package 2: Door-to-door collection of wet waste and four dry waste fractions from the list of hotels and restaurants and bins and bags stationed at predetermined collection points in the waste management zone.

Package 3: Door-to-door collection from a single point for dry waste fractions (plastics, paper, metal/glass, etc) from a pre-indentified single point in residential colonies or complexes; door-to-door collection of bio-medical waste from residential units, hospitals and clinics; collection of specific fractions of dry waste once a week as per the daily schedule provided; providing door-to-door waste segregated collection services for exhibitions and events as and when required.

Package 4: Providing door-to-door segregated waste collection and housekeeping services plus toilet management in the Municipal Market, Panjim.

Package 5: Carrying out sorting of different dry waste fractions at sorting facilities established by the Corporation.

Package 6: Daily road sweeping and sorting, collection of waste from the roads and footpaths; collection and manual loading of horticulture, leaf waste in trucks on daily basis with operation of brush chipper machine.

Package 7: Operating of composting facilities for processing of organic waste.

Package 8: Collection of waste from different collection points within the jurisdiction of the Corporation and transportation of the waste to the processing, disposal facilities.

The tendering process in on and is expected to be finalized shortly.

Herald View

The garbage issue in Panjim has raised a stink that is as bad as the one emanating from the garbage itself. The struggles of the authorities to start the construction of a garbage treatment plant have not yet borne fruit. For CCP, the problem grows just as quickly as the garbage piles up. And ever so often the resources of the Corporation of the City of Panaji get diverted to clearing the garbage that has been left at people’s doorsteps due to a strike by the CCP workers. While outsourcing may solve CCP’s current problems, the Corporation has drawn some flak for the abrupt termination of the workers’ contracts.