As part of its ambitious plan to segregate waste at source, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) on Wednesday claimed to have achieved 100 per cent waste segregation at household level in Janak Puri South.

A senior SDMC official said that there are 10000 houses in 29 colonies under the ward where the waste is being holistically segregated as per the SWM Rules 2016. 

 "A quantity of 3 tonne wet waste is being processed daily and 10.5 tonne of waste has been segregated at source between 23rd April and May 10th, he said, adding that the record of 100 percent segregation was achieved on 11th May 2019.

"The civic body involved 29 'Resident Welfare Associations' that have been exhorting and guiding the residents in the segregation and processing of wet waste at their places. The residents have developed habit to segregate waste which helped us to achieve the feat," the official said, adding that another ward under west zone will be declared model ward in the month of June. With this, the Corporation has saved transportation cost Rs 8000 per day as the segregated waste are being processed at ward level and converted into manure, he said.  Earlier, the waste was being dumped to landfill sites which cost the SDMC Rs 29 lakh annually which will now being saved, he added.

The civic body had also instructed all household, restaurants and all waste generators including bulk generators to take note of this and start segregation at source. All garbage generators will have to pay notified user charges and have to ensure management of MSW failing which notified penalty will be charged," he added.

To facilitate and educate the garbage generators in the process of segregation and management of solid waste as per rules of Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSW) - 2016, SDMC Commissioner Dr Puneet Kumar Goel had instructed all the zonal authorities concerned to initiate a new campaign.

Goel had said that the compliance of the rules is essential to reduce burden on sanitary landfill site and make Delhi green and our localities most beautiful, lovable, clean and green.

Earlier the week, the SDMC had announced to make all its wards to adhere to the norms of solid waste management rules in a period of one year. It has also started the process of turning three wards R K Puram, Andrews Ganj and Janakpuri South as model wards within a period of six months. It may be noted that NGT in its order dated January 3, directed the civic body to turn its three wards as model wards for implementation of the SWM Rules 2016 within six months.