Mysuru City Corporation clears 985 tonne waste from 80 Garbage Vulnerable Points

Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has cleared 985.56 tonne of garbage from 80 Garbage Vulnerable Points (GVPs) during the mission taken up to make them zero litter zones. MCC Commissioner M K Savitha took up this mission with her team and the people from July 27 to August 25, to mark the 80th year of Indian Independence. "We are expanding this mission to the entire city, to clear all the GVPs of all zones under MCC limits, within three months. With this, we plan to make the city cleaner and sustainable, to regain the country's cleanest city tag and to maintain the beauty of the heritage city - Mysuru," said Savitha. .Clean Mysuru: MCC plans 10,000 student wardens for garbage-free city drive.During the mission, 3,984 people and members of various organisations have volunteered. They joined the MCC staff and strived for 272 hours to clear 80 GVPs. The GVPs have even beautified with paintings. They have cleared the highest of 220 tonne of waste in Boothala ground on August 12; 149 tonne at Gokulam crematorium point on August 11; 137.66 tonne at Eden Garden in Rajiv Nagar second stage on August 13; 133 tonne in CV Road on August 5; 69 tonne in Bandikeri on August 11; 45.3 tonne on Dattagalli ring road, PKV Acharya Bhavan on August 17; 43 tonne in SBM Colony, Shanthi Nagar on August 17; 25 tonne on HCG road on August 19; 20 tonne each on solid waste processing plant road in Vidyaranyapuram and JP Nagar 13th Cross, B Block on August 12 and 13. The MCC Commissioner has come up with an elaborate action plan to protect the transformed GVPs, by ensuring that they are permanent zero litter areas, by monitoring and preventing re-dumping. The MCC is now converting this drive into a citywide sustainable waste management system.Savitha informed that the MCC has taken up a five-point action plan. They are: Cleaning - to ensure that the accumulated waste is cleared and moved to the correct facility; Collection of segregated waste - by ensuring reliable door-to-door collection, fixing collection points for commercial establishments, assigning scheduled vehicles for markets and events, and arranging smaller vehicles to slums and peripheries; Control - digital monitoring of staff attendance, GPS tracking of waste collection vehicles, and AI cameras at selected GVPs; Enforce - explore cause, identify waste generator and making them responsible by issuing notice and penalising repeated offenders; and Engage - by involving citizens, organisations in the mission. They have classified the littered zones to Red zone - with heavy and chronic littering; Orange - with recurring littering; and Green - controlled point and they plan to monitor them accordingly. They are identifying collection gaps and fixing them. For each chronic GVP, the MCC staff are conducting a Waste Source Mapping exercise for 100–200 metres around the point. They have an IT command center, and are verifying each complaint registered with GPS location, and dispatching a 'Garbage hotspot rapid response team instead of waiting for regular vehicle/staff to clear waste within two to four hour and closing the complaint with a photograph. .Activists submit representation to MCC to stop using trees for Dasara illumination.They have formed a network of officials to supervise the process, including Commissioner, Additional Commissioner, Executive Engineer (Environment), Zonal Assistant Commissioners, Assistant Executive Engineers or Environment Engineers and Health Inspectors.They are maintaining a scorecard after reviewing performance for every week and rewarding the best performing staff, said Savitha.