Aafrin Kidwai
The Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) issued short-term tenders for waste collection and transportation from the city’s 243 wards, which have 42 lakh households and commercial buildings. BSWML floated the tender for the second…
Aafrin Kidwai
Eco-Green Energy Pvt Ltd, hired by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation for door-to-door waste collection, will now have to submit daily status reports to the office of city mayor. The company has also been asked to…
Aafrin Kidwai
Coimbatore Municipal Corporation is planning to install more bins and replace the damaged ones with new bins to prevent residents from dumping garbage on the roadsides. These bins will be cleared regularly by deploying more…
Aafrin Kidwai
Antony Waste Handling Cell’s subsidiary, AG Enviro Infra Projects, has received a letter of intent (LoI) for door-to-door collection and transportation (C&T) of municipal solid waste (MSW) from the Sadar Paharganj Zone of North Delhi…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Noida Development Industrial Authority (GNIDA) has floated a Rs 121 crore tender for door-to-door waste collection from its urban and rural areas and transportation to the landfill. Interested companies can apply for the…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Faridabad Municipal Corporation (FMC) has announced it will achieve 100 per cent waste collection by early next year. For this purpose, the civic body has procured 110 vehicles to collect segregated waste in the…
Aafrin Kidwai
After removing hundreds of bins from vegetable markets, major chowks and congested areas, the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has had a rethink. It now plants to retain 200 bins at these locations. KMC authorities claim…
Aafrin Kidwai
Mangaluru Corporation is planning to purchase several new waste collection and transportation vehicles by early next year. The decision is expected to help those living in less accessible narrow lanes where waste collection is hard.…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Nashik Municipal Corporation has said that daily garbage collection in the city has increased by 20% during 2020-21 due to the Covid pandemic. NMC officials said they would collect around 502 tonnes of garbage…
Aafrin Kidwai
Following some uncertainties, the Pune civic body has said it will extend its contract with SWaCH (Solid Waste Collection and Handling). There is some resistance from certain groups which claim that it is wrong to…
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The J&K State Level Apex Committee (SLAC) has directed that 100% door-to-door waste collection be implemented in all J&K towns by October 2, 2021. This was decided during the recently held 8th SLAC meeting on…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation is planning to hand over collection of certain non-recyclable wastes such as thermacol and rexine to the Clean Kerala Company Ltd. In the absence of an official collection mechanism by the Corporation,…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to procure 1,350 Swachh Auto Tippers (SATs) to pick up waste from households. The GHMC has invited requests for a proposal to supply and deliver 1,350 SATs…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Bengaluru civic body has deployed a new fleet of dry waste collection vehicles. Gas Authority Of India Limited (GAIL) gave away 18 CNG collection vehicles to the BBMP for the ease of collecting dry…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is adding 650 more Swachh Auto Tippers (SAT) to the present fleet of 2,500 SATs to implement better door-to-door waste segregation. Each SAT will cover 400 to 800 households…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has issued a tender to outsource door-to-door garbage collection and transportation services to a private agency. CCP has categorised the work in two packages – wet waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
Facing difficulties in timely collection of municipal solid waste, East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has hired a private contractor for door-to-door collection of segregated waste, removal of waste and silt from roadsides, and transportationof processed…
Aafrin Kidwai
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has set up a three-member team for door-to-door collection of biomedical waste from homes of coronavirus affected patient and its disposal in a scientific manner. A senior municipal official…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Greater Chennai Corporation (GMC) has issued work orders to Spanish firm Urbaser SA and its Indian partner Sumeet Facilities Limited to carry out garbage removal operations in seven zones. The New Indian Express reports…
