BMC begins training of sanitation workers on SWM-2016 rules

BHUBANESWAR:  The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) started its two-day massive training program for all the sanitation workers engaged in 67 wards across the Bhubaneswar city on June 10. This initiative was taken in order to make the grassroots-level sanitation workers aware about the Solid Waste Management Rule-2016.

More than 1,200 sanitation workers including 600 from the BMC-managed 10 wards in the first session and more than 600 from Ramky-managed 15 wards in the second session, other two private sanitation agencies PMR and Jagruti will be included in, June 11, today’s session.

The training was to make the sanitation workers understand the importance of door-to-door collection of garbage, separation of bio-degradable and non-biodegradable wastes and impact of plastic waste across the globe. Also, trainings were provided for how to develop material recovery facility (MRF) in the city for better implementation of SWM Rules 2016, use of different coloured dustbins for different waste types, street sweeping norms and strict `no’ to burning of the municipal solid waste along the streets.

Last week the Housing and Urban Development Department has imparted training on all the urban local bodies of the State so that they would implement the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) order to all staff including the sweepers and `jamadars’ for better implementation of the SWM Rule-2016.

BMC on June 7, organised a training program for officials, community organisers and zonal officials including members from Biju Yuva Bahini at the Conference Hall on the SWM Rule-2016 following a directive from the NGT on imparting the training among all the staff. The second step was to train the sanitation workers and BMC plans to cover 3,100 sanitation workers. The training programme also included methods to manage green wastes across the city including construction of 220 compost pits in BMC-managed parks across the city.