Starting from Friday, around 100 volunteers will go door-to-door to create awareness about the cleanliness and segregation of garbage
With an aim to make Lutyen's zone garbage free, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has started a 45-day campaign to segregate the solid waste management from the residential areas. Starting from Friday, around 100 volunteers will go door-to-door to create awareness about the cleanliness and segregation of garbage.
"These volunteers will go door-to-door so as to create awareness in the New Delhi area about the segregation of garbage in the components such as bio-wet and bio-dry. As per the plan, around 50,000 house-holds would be covered by these 100 volunteers," said Naresh Kumar, chairman, NDMC.
The campaign will also include various NGOs, RWAs, market associations and students. In addition to it, the e-waste and domestic hazardous waste would be collected separately and disposed off scientifically. "The campaign would be aimed at to bring about the behavioral change in the public at large and also to sensitize the people of all walks of life to make the swachhta as a routine and regular exercise in their daily life," he added.
To give a thrust to the campaign, the NDMC said it would also involve their brand ambassadors namely Arunima Sinha and Deepa Malik to deliver the message of sanitation and cleanliness to the general public.
"The campaign will also have cultural programmes like magic shows and nukkad natak. These plays would be performed in the different localities of the New Delhi area to spread the message about the segregation of waste at source," Kumar said.
According to officials, the NDMC is starving hard to make the area 100 percent garbage free to mark World Environment Day on June 5. The council in the first phase has planned to clean at least five of its residential colony namely Ravinder Nagar, Kaka Nagar, Golf Links, Jor Bagh and Pancharipuri and make them a zero waste area.
"The NGOs volunteers are taking away the recyclable articles and only the rest which is of not much use is taken to the waste to energy plant in Okhla. We are converting the horticulture waste into compost through compost pits and compost plants at Okhla," he said. The campaign will end on June 4.
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