Under pressure from contractor, Ludhiana MC raises tipping fee

The Ludhiana civic body has agreed to increase its tipping fee by Rs 101 to Rs 425, following pressure from the private contractor after it gave an ultimatum to stop lifting waste. The final decision was taken by mayor Balkar Sandhu, reports Hindustan Times. The MC was paying Rs 324 per tonne as tipping fee to the company. 

Waste collected from households is dumped at over 40 secondary dumping points in Ludhiana. The tipping fee is paid to the company for shifting garbage from secondary dumps to the main dumpsite on Tajpur road. Citing a hike in diesel price and maintenance expenses, the company had demanded that the civic body should hike its rate, otherwise it will stop the lifting process.

As reported by SolidWasteIndia, A2Z had terminated its contract with the MC on February 4 this year. The civic body had made stopgap arrangements by roping in the third party to whom A2Z company had sublet the work of lifting garbage from the city.

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