After Jharia and Dhanbad, residents of Sindri and Chhatatand circles of Dhanbad Municipal Corporation (DMC) will not have to walk long distances to dump garbage in roadside vats, instead rubbish collectors will knock doors to collect bins.

The door-to-door garbage collection that the DMC is carrying out in 26 wards of Jharia through Hyderabad-based agency Ramky Enviro Engineers under the integrated solid-waste-management project worth Rs 274 crore since June 2019, will be extended to different wards of Sindri and Chhatatand by this month-end starting with two wards each from the two circles in three days.

A survey for the expansion of the door-to-door garbage collection has already begun in two wards each of Sindri and Chhatatand since last week and a full-fledged garbage collection in the four wards is expected to start in three days.

Dhanbad mayor Chandrashekhar Agarwal said: “We will gradually cover all the 55 wards of Dhanbad spread over five circles (Jharia, Dhanbad, Sindri, Katras and Chhatatand) in three months but we need people’s cooperation. They should change the habit of throwing garbage anywhere and instead use the door-to-door facility.”

Pranab Kumar Pattnaik, the project in charge of Ramky Enviro Engineers, said: “Though we have started work on a trial basis in four wards (number 46 and 47 of Sindri and number 18 and 19 of Chhatatand), gradually we will be expanding it in all the 11 wards of Sindri and Chhatatand. The garbage collected from ward numbers 46 and 47 of Sindri will be transferred to a Jharia-based compactor station from where it will be dumped at Baniahir-based dumping station and the garbage collected from ward numbers 18 and 19 of Chhatatand will be transferred in small tippers to large tippers and finally dumped at Baniahir-based dumping site,” said Pattnaik.

“We have started work on land demarcation for the construction of compactor station at Matkuria and a similar work for a compactor station will be started in other places soon. Because of lack of garbage compactor stations, transferring garbage from households to distant static compactors is a time-consuming and expensive exercise,” said Pattnaik.

The garbage collected from households is first transferred to static compactors, where after squeezing the whetted garbage its weight drops and then it is transferred to the dumping site at Baniahir.

According to a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the DMC and Ramky Enviro Engineers for solid waste management project, Ramky has to carry out door-to-door collection as well as disposal and recycle the garbage. The DMC has to sweep and clean drains.