Reza Mahmud :
With a view to reviving the ‘flopped waste bin project’ of Dhaka South and Dhaka North City Corporations, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered both the corporations to invent ways for sustaining the project.
“The Prime Minister Office (PMO) has sent us letters to the city corporations to find out paths that how the people will be aware to use of the waste
bins properly,” Khandakar Millatul Islam, Additional Chief Waste Management Officer, DSCC, told The New Nation.
He said concern officials from DNCC and DSCC had already met several times and exchanged their views and experiences how to make the project sustainable.
“We have decided through those meetings to make the citizens aware of using the bins properly. The city corporations will use microphone campaigning, distribute leaflets and other useful ways to make the project workable,” Millatul Islam said. Sources said, around six thousand mini bins were set up at various points of the DSCC areas in 2016 as an effort to make the city clean.
DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokon declared 2016 as ‘Clean Year’ in a press briefing on December 23, 2015 in the city.
He disclosed his plan to set up waste bins in pavements around the DSCC jurisdiction areas.
According to that plan, six thousand waste bins were installed in 2016. Besides these, around one thousand bins were also set up in the DNCC at the same time.
The bins cost Tk 7,000 to Tk 12,000 per piece.
According to the officials, it cost around Tk 5.50 crore in both the city corporations.
But the project found flopped for lack of surveillance of the officials and unawareness attitude of the people, it is alleged. Most of the mini bins found stolen, broken and became unusable as the citizens make those full of house hold garbage.
In many places, there are only frame found remaining without the bins. Officials and related sources said few hundred bins have been stolen from both the city corporation areas.
In the remaining bins, most were found unusable as the nearby families and traders made those bins full with rotten household materials and shop wastages.
But the city corporation’s officials said that the waste bins were installed only for the pedestrians to keep light garbage like the waste food packages, torn papers, used tissues and such others.
“It was not for keeping household wastages or office and factory garbage,” said Millatul Islam.
Besides these, many shopkeepers intentionally have broken the mini bins as they consider it a dirty thing in front or beside their shops. The officials from both the city corporations said they have fined some shop- keepers for such activities.
On the other hand, some shopkeepers alleged that unidentified people keep garbage and made the bins unusable. But the city corporation officials failed to make those clean months after months for further use.
They also alleged that the concern officials of the city corporations failed to supervise these bins regularly.
In this situation, when the city authorities are close to give up the project, the PM Office sent the letter asked the corporations to make the project sustainable.
With a view to reviving the ‘flopped waste bin project’ of Dhaka South and Dhaka North City Corporations, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered both the corporations to invent ways for sustaining the project.
“The Prime Minister Office (PMO) has sent us letters to the city corporations to find out paths that how the people will be aware to use of the waste
bins properly,” Khandakar Millatul Islam, Additional Chief Waste Management Officer, DSCC, told The New Nation.
He said concern officials from DNCC and DSCC had already met several times and exchanged their views and experiences how to make the project sustainable.
“We have decided through those meetings to make the citizens aware of using the bins properly. The city corporations will use microphone campaigning, distribute leaflets and other useful ways to make the project workable,” Millatul Islam said. Sources said, around six thousand mini bins were set up at various points of the DSCC areas in 2016 as an effort to make the city clean.
DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokon declared 2016 as ‘Clean Year’ in a press briefing on December 23, 2015 in the city.
He disclosed his plan to set up waste bins in pavements around the DSCC jurisdiction areas.
According to that plan, six thousand waste bins were installed in 2016. Besides these, around one thousand bins were also set up in the DNCC at the same time.
The bins cost Tk 7,000 to Tk 12,000 per piece.
According to the officials, it cost around Tk 5.50 crore in both the city corporations.
But the project found flopped for lack of surveillance of the officials and unawareness attitude of the people, it is alleged. Most of the mini bins found stolen, broken and became unusable as the citizens make those full of house hold garbage.
In many places, there are only frame found remaining without the bins. Officials and related sources said few hundred bins have been stolen from both the city corporation areas.
In the remaining bins, most were found unusable as the nearby families and traders made those bins full with rotten household materials and shop wastages.
But the city corporation’s officials said that the waste bins were installed only for the pedestrians to keep light garbage like the waste food packages, torn papers, used tissues and such others.
“It was not for keeping household wastages or office and factory garbage,” said Millatul Islam.
Besides these, many shopkeepers intentionally have broken the mini bins as they consider it a dirty thing in front or beside their shops. The officials from both the city corporations said they have fined some shop- keepers for such activities.
On the other hand, some shopkeepers alleged that unidentified people keep garbage and made the bins unusable. But the city corporation officials failed to make those clean months after months for further use.
They also alleged that the concern officials of the city corporations failed to supervise these bins regularly.
In this situation, when the city authorities are close to give up the project, the PM Office sent the letter asked the corporations to make the project sustainable.
