The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will start door to door garbage collection service in all the wards from February 1. Out of the 100 wards in Dehradun, the sanitation facilities in 69 wards are managed by Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) while one ward is managed by a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). The newly selected Dehradun-based companies will manage the sanitation facilities in the remaining 30 new wards and as per the officials, 15 wards will be given to each selected company. Informing about the initiation of the door to door garbage collection service in all the wards of the city, the municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey stated that the corporation is working hard to improve the sanitation facilities in Dehradun and as a part of it, the MCD will start door to door service from February 1. The officials informed that the corporation has given some time to the companies to make arrangements to begin sanitation facilities in the new wards considering which, the door to door service will start from February 1. It is pertinent to mention here that MCD is trying to start door to door service in all the wards as soon as possible because it will help the corporation to get additional points in the upcoming inspection of Swachh Survekshan 2021.
