Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) will be the first corporation to have made segregation of solid and wet waste mandatory and warned that water supply of those who fail to comply with the MBMC directive would be disconnected. Commissioner Achyut Hange said that MBMC is aggressively working towards Swachch Bharat and they have decided to make the city clean and free of open defecation.
Mr Hange said that as part of the Swachch Bharat Mission, they were making people aware of the segregation of solid and wet waste. They had a dumping ground on 65 acre land at Uttan and a further 35 acre had been allotted at Sakwan near Mira-Bhayandar, 65 km away from Mumbai.
He said that most hotel owners did not segregate waste at the source despite the corporation having vehicles to collect waste. The same was the case with housing societies. To inculcate clean habits and contain the burden on the dumping ground, they had warned these people to dispose wet waste with the corporation vehicle and scrap solid waste like glass, plastic and tin items to scrap dealers. Mr Hange warned that if they failed to do this, they would disconnect water supply of both hotels and housing societies. He added however that disconnecting water supply was not possible to implement immediately as people were not even getting sufficient drinking water owing to the water shortage.
Mira-Bhayandar gets water supply from two sources, including STEM and MIDC. STEM provides 86 MLD water whereas MIDC provides 50 MLD water. MIDC has applied a 30 per cent cut due to water shortage which will increase only in April-May. Hence, they would not be able to implement the decision to disconnect water supply till June this year, said Mr Hange. “I am firm on my decision and it will implemented from June 1 for the sake of the city and its people, and it will not need approval of General Body of Standing Committee of the Corporation,” he stressed.
