The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued strict guidelines to 26 agencies across the city, appealing them to ensure the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is being followed in their premises.
The agencies include the railways, the police, collectors of Mumbai city and suburbs, Mumbai Port Trust, Slum Rehabilitation Authority, CPWD, PWD, JJ Hospital, MSRDC, MTDC, MTNL, Reliance Energy, MSEDC, RCF, Western Naval Command, BARC, HPCL, Air Force and MIDC.
Individual letters were sent to the agencies last month by former additional municipal commissioner Vikas Kharge, who was in charge of the solid waste management department of the BMC.
In the letters written to the Central and Western Railways, it has been mentioned that platforms should be swept and washed regularly and paan stains from bridges/platforms and walls should be removed. "Public toilets should be cleaned and disinfected and banners and posters with messages on cleanliness should be displayed at prominent places," the letter added.
The letter sent to the Mumbai Police says shramdaan should be carried out regularly. "Parking lots, arterial roads, open spaces and tree guards should be cleaned everyday," the letter addressed to the commissioner of police says.
Letters written to all the agencies say garbage generated at their premises should be segregated at source by putting it into two separate bins. It adds that each agency should try achieving zero transportation of waste outside by making sufficient arrangement for composting wet waste on its premises and giving dry waste to recyclers or BMC's dry waste collection trucks.
The letters also instruct all the agencies to compost green waste generated within their premises. "Construction and demolition material generated within your premises, if any, should be disposed of strictly as per BMC'S debris management plan," the letters say.
Other points in the letters are about regular cleaning of storm water drains and sewer tanks in their premises.
A senior civic official from the SWM department said, "The BMC alone can't make the drive a success. We need cooperation from citizens as well as agencies. We have had meetings with the agency heads to streamline the process."
However, no monitoring system has been devised to check if the instructions are being followed by the agencies. "It's good to know that the BMC has issued letters to all the agencies, but with Mr Kharge being transferred recently, everything is likely to be stuck there, till someone appointed in his position takes it ahead," said Jason Fernandes, a Santa Cruz activist.
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