PMC identifies 913 chronic garbage spots in Pune

PUNE, Maharashtra: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is dealing with the task of clearing garbage from ‘chronic spots,’ where garbage is consistently being dumped.

In addition to this challenge, the PMC is now facing the issue of clearing garbage from private premises. To address this problem, the civic body has decided to issue notices to the owners of these private properties.

Sandeep Kadam, deputy commissioner of the PMC solid waste management department, stated, “Private landowners will receive instructions to prevent waste dumping on their property, including putting up fences. We have instructed all ward officials to send notices. We will also mention in the notices that the open space be covered with a green net. If the owners fail to do so, we will cover it and include the expense in the landowner’s property tax.”

During a survey carried out by the solid waste management department earlier, the PMC found a total of 913 chronic garbage spots across 15 ward offices in the city. The maximum number of such spots were found in Hadapsar-Mundhwa (153), followed by Nagar Road-Wadgaon Sheri (131), Sinhagad Road (98), and Kondhwa-Yewalewadi (87). For the past four months, sanitation workers from PMC and waste pickers from Swachh have been laboring to clear these areas. The task is challenging due to people frequently changing the dumping spots.