Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, September 03, 2010:
Process has began to enforce the Manipur Municipalities (Cleanliness and Sanitation) Model Bylaw-2009, which was approved by the government a year back, in the Imphal Municipal areas so as to achieve the objectives of the ongoing Zero Garbage Project, an official source said today.
The Manipur Municipalities (Cleanliness and Sanitation) Model Bylaw was framed by the state law department in 2009.Government approved it in the same year but even after a year has passed the same remains unimplemented with reasons best known to the implementing authorities.
The bylaw was framed by the government with the objective of taking up appropriate actions against offenders in the authority�s effort to keep municipal areas in the state neat and clean.
But no municipal councils including the Imphal Municipal Council has implemented it.
With the initiative of the state government, to coincide with its ongoing Zero Garbage Campaign, the process for enforcement of the bylaw has started, an official source in the Imphal Municipality office said today.
Once the bylaw is in force, defaulters who dump waste products at improper places and at public utility areas can be punished by applying appropriate sections of the bylaw, the source said.
In the bylaw, there is provision to penalize any individual, institutions or establishments (may be semi - government, government or private undertaking) if they dump waste products at improper places.
It will also cover the campus or complex within the institutes or establishments, the source maintained.
After the bylaw is enforced in the IMC area, the same will be extended to other municipal areas of the state.
Government has taken up the process for enforcing it considering the need to keep the city clean so that diseases caused by improper dumping of waste may be avoided.
The IMC authority decided to enforce the bylaw as all efforts of the council to free the city from dirt has failed and the people�s incorrigible habit to throw waste in public areas could not be checked effectively.
It is estimated that over 96 tones of solid waste are produced per day within the Imphal Municipal area.
IMC with support of some NGOs is able to collect about 55 to 57 tones a day to be disposed at a designated place.