Ranipet targets to become garbage free zone

VELLORE: Ranipet Municipality in the Vellore district has added 12 new battery operated garbage collection vehicles to its fleet to collect garbage from households and industrials units under municipality’s premises. The total number of battery operated vehicles have rose to 22 after the new consignment arrived.

The workers involved in door-to-door collection of waste was relived from arduous labour. They will now collect door-to-door garbage using these new vehicles.

These new vehicles are primarily going to be used to transport the 17 tone of biodegradable waste from 30 wards of the Ranipet Municipality to compost units.

R S Venkatachalam, Commissioner, Ranipet Municipality said, “The environment-friendly vehicles are already in operation in many municipalities in the State. The vehicles used by us belongs to the closed-type category (similar to an auto) and garbage will not get spilled on to the roads. We have accomplished about 60 per cent source segregation so far and the remaining portions would be covered within next few months to make the municipality a Garbage Free Zone.”

The officials from Commissionerate of Municipal Administration claimed that a conservancy staff riding a battery-operated vehicle can cover 400 households every day. Each battery-operated vehicle can run for six hours covering a distance of 50 km.