Mangaluru: 50% rebate in SWM cess on property tax and trade license

The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) is exhorting citizens to participate in handling domestic waste on their own by offering 50% rebate in SWM cess levied with property tax and in trade license. The MCC will shortly disburse the rebate certificates to households/commercial units that have taken the lead in this direction.

Madhu Manohar, MCC environmental engineer told The Times of India that the MCC is ensuring that Antony Waste Handling Cell Private Limited, the agency contracted to handle city’s waste, too falls in line and takes only segregated waste from the households and commercial bulk waste generators. Antony Waste has been directed to ensure that dry and wet waste is not mixed in either their primary waste transport vehicle or in the secondary compactor vehicle that takes the trash to the city’s landfill site at Pachanady. The onus is now also on households to go in for segregation compulsorily, he said.

The pilot that MCC started in five wards with segregated waste collection nearly a year ago has since been extended to all 60 wards of the corporation

The Health department is keeping a watch on the contractor to ensure that mixed waste is not taken to Pachanady landfill.

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