Bhopal: Within less than a month, the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) has fulfilled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Mann Ki Baat” by putting up separate dustbins (green and blue) for wet and dry waste in some commercial areas in the city. Though a part of the Bhopal Smart City project, the scheme has been linked with the Modi’s pet Swachh Bharat initiative.
One of the major objectives of the project is to generate energy using bio-waste. Around 50 to 60 separate dustbins have been installed over the past two-three days and more would be put up soon.
On May 28, the Prime Minister said in his monthly radio programme, ‘Mann Ki Baat’ to people that “India is taking steps in the right direction to ensure a Swachh Bharat (clean India). One thing that we all must focus on is waste management. The first thing we must do is not to think of garbage as waste. Garbage segregation must start at home. We all must dispose it on the basis of dry, wet, plastic, paper or metal, tin, reusable like cloth, etc. I request you all to take this step.
“Two types of waste bins will be available in green and blue colour, for liquid and dry waste. If we follow discipline, then the waste bins will collect dry garbage in blue waste bins and liquid garbage in green waste bins,” Modi added in the 32nd edition of the radio programme.
MP Singh, BMC additional commissioner told Free Press “It is part of Bhopal Smart City project and Swachh Bharat initiative of Government of India and the objective of the project is to generate energy using bio-waste. As many as 50 to 60 dustbins have been installed in some commercial areas in the city including Link Road No. 1, New Market, Manisha Market, 10 No. Market et al. We also have two separate vehicles for segregation of wastes. Before this, we have launched door to door garbage collection scheme.”
Singh further said that “We already have the state’s first biomethanation plant to generate electricity for lighting up street lights at Bittan Market. It utilises biodegradable waste, mostly from the nearby vegetable market and the adjacent colonies, to be converted into biogas. The biogas plant is able to process five tons of segregated organic municipal solid waste daily and produce biogas.”
