A Mumbai-based company will take up solid waste management in Mangalore city. In this regard, Mangalore City Corporation has signed an agreement with Antony Waste Handling Cell, Mumbai, for managing solid waste in Mangalore for the next seven years.

A press release said that Antony Waste Handling Cell will invest around ₹7 crore on vehicles for this project and submit a performance bank guarantee of ₹5 crore.

Hydraulic vehicles

According to the contract, solid waste of 200 tonnes a day is expected in Mangalore. The agreement covers door-to-door collection of solid waste from 60 wards of Mangalore City Corporation. With the deployment of hydraulic-operated vehicles for collection of solid waste, the current system of transportation of solid waste in open trucks will come to an end, it said.

Sanitation works such as street sweeping, vegetation cutting, footpath cleaning, and removing silt from storm water drains will also be taken up. The company will undertake mechanised sweeping in south zone of Mangalore and beach cleaning in north zone.

The release said that all the vehicles and equipment to be deployed will be operated and maintained at the cost of the contractor.

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