Chirala Municipality holds workshop on solid waste management

Chirala: The Chirala Municipalitty, the first urban local body to implement integrated solid management and real-time monitoring system in the state, organised a workshop on implementation of operational guidelines and real-time monitoring system in sanitation and solid waste management at Ramapuram plant on Wednesday.

The commissioners, sanitary inspectors, municipal engineers, health officers and other staff from all urban local bodies in the state participated in the first day of a two-day workshop. Chirala MLA Amanchi Krishna Mohan and municipal commissioner P Srinivasa Rao spent the day with the municipal staff and explained how the local body is monitoring the waste collection, segregating the waste and preparing organic waste from it.

P Asha Jyothi, member secretary, AP Property Tax Board said, “The Chirala Municipality is monitoring the door to door waste collection, implementing weighing mechanism at transfer and collection points, set up the bio-composting and organic composting at the yard and allocated land for filling with the inert waste. The commissioners and other municipal staff, who witnessed the system here, will go to their places and implement there.”

P Srinivasarao, commissioner of Chirala Municipality said, “The real-time monitoring helps the commissioner and command control to know if the waste collecting workers skipped any house or a lane through the RFID technology. With this, we get the 100 per cent waste collection and transport it to Ramapuram solid waste management plant. Here we process the waste through scientific process.”

Sivaramakrishna, commissioner of Tadipatri said, “All municipalities are collecting the waste in the towns. But here the public are segregating the waste as dry and wet and cooperating with the local body. We have witnessed the real-time monitoring of waste collection and learnt about integrated solid management in scientific approach.”