CMC details six officers to monitor garbage disposal

Lakshmi DE SILVA

The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has employed six officers to monitor garbage disposal in six divisions of the city in its latest measure to keep the city clean, CMC Commissioner Badrani Jayawardene told the Daily News yesterday.

She said the new move was being implemented in collaboration with Police and around 100 people have been produced in courts for not keeping their environment clean. There are 47 wards in the Colombo City within the six administrative divisions. We have employed six persons but the number would be doubled in the near future. These garbage monitoring inspectors would do three rounds per day in one administrative division, she said.

The CMC spends more than three rupees for clearing one kilogram of garbage to keep the city clean and spends millions of rupees for that purpose. City dwellers should be disciplined to keep the city clean and save the funds being spent to clear the garbage thrown on the street corners haphazardly. These people do not realize they are polluting their environment, she said.

The CMC and Police educated the people of the city through a public address system last Sunday about the new system and warned the people not to litter streets, she said.