Patna: The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) is ready to re-start the door-to-door collection of garbage in the city and is also working to clean up Patna’s drainage system by June 10 (Sunday).

The PMC commissioner Rajesh Meena has ordered the officers of New Capital Area, Kankerbagh, Bankipore and Patliputra areas to prepare a design plan for the door-to-door collection of garbage and to submit it to the headquarters.

The PMC will commission vehicles and sanitary workers in every circle for the work soon will also make a route plan for its effectiveness, according to local media reports.

Patna is notorious for its garbage, and the ‘citizens’ are no less! People habitually throw garbage all over the place. This time plans are underway to make people aware of garbage collection through playing music from loudspeakers fixed to the top of the  ‘auto tipper’ vehicles. The music will announce the presence of the garbage collectors.

The PMC commissioner has ordered that the 25 auto tippers earlier provided to the Nishka Security and Intelligence Services be taken back. The auto tippers hired from the PMC for the door-to-door collection of garbage have not been returned.

The services of Patna-based Nishka Security and Intelligence Services and Delhi-based People’s Association for Total Help and Youth Applause (Patheya) agencies were cancelled as they failed to execute the door-to-door collection of garbage.

In preparation for the monsoon, the PMC commissioner has also ordered the cleaning of all the drains by June 10 to avoid waterlogging like previous years.

The PMC commissioner has been made aware that 70-80 percent of drains have been cleaned. He has asked for the report of the big drains. At Rajiv Nagar, Serpentine Road and Bihar Military Police (BMP) the cleaning work of drains is in progress.

A police force would be provided for four days for the removal of encroachments from the New Bypass drain at Kankerbagh.

Directions were further issued to complete all the under-construction drains in the city by June 30 so that when the monsoon arrives there is no water accumulation on the roads.

  Patna Municipal Corporation