Faridabad MC releases tenders of Rs 32.95 crore for waste collection

The Municipal Corporation, Faridabad, (MCF) has released tenders worth Rs 32.95 crore for door-to-door collection of the waste in the city.

The tenders will be valid for five years. This is the first long-term move which has been taken after the cancellation of the contract with a company earlier this year.

With the tenders likely to be opened on October 22, the work at the ground is likely to begin by the end of this month. The tenders are meant for work related to the collection of waste from households and removal to transfer stations. The contract of disposal of waste from transfer stations to processing centres or final dumping points will be separate.

The state government had recently directed the MCF to issue fresh tenders for awarding contracts for the collection and disposal of the civic waste on a regular basis. Around 1,050 tonnes of waste is churned out daily within the civic limits.

According to the new contract, the MCF will have to collect a user fee from the residents and pay it to the contractors engaged for the work of collection and disposal.

The civic body has been asked to include waste collection charges in the house tax or the property tax realised from residents. The residents who had been paying money to private persons for disposal of daily waste will now be required to shell out an amount to the civic body. The charges are expected to be finalised soon.

The issue of waste collection and disposal had assumed serious preparations after the previous contract or the MoU signed by the MCF with a Chinese company in 2017 had been terminated in February this year over poor work, and the civic body had resorted to hiring local contractors for the disposal work.

Claiming that the new contract would help streamline the work of collection and disposal in a better manner, an official said the process had got halted by certain factors, including, the election process.

The waste collection in the past has been done mainly by private individuals who had been disposing it at the transfer stations. The daily waste is disposed of at various spots, including the two waste-processing plants of Pratapgarh and Mujeri villages, and the landfill of Bandhwari village.

The MCF executive engineer said the tenders for all four zones of the city were set to open soon to begin the door-to-door collection of the waste.