JAIPUR: Ward councillors have blamed shortage of garbage collection vehicles (hooper) as the reason for degrading sanitation situation of Jaipur.
They said despite repeated requests, the number of vehicles has not been increased.
According to officials, every ward in the city must have five hoopers but most have two.
According to the garbage collection company, around 600 hoopers are functioning in the city, but councillors said these numbers are not enough to cover every household.
Ward 9 councillor of, JMC-Heritage Rajat Bishnoi said that the world heritage site has become the world garbage site.
“I think every ward needs five hoopers to perfectly cover all the houses.
These hoopers have no fixed timings and don’t go in every household for collection which gives rise to garbage depots,” said Bishnoi.
JMC-Heritage ward 8 councillor Mahendra Pahadiya said his area has many slums that can be covered only with hand-pulled carts and cycle-rickshaws.
Despite demanding it many times, the issue was never resolved.
Ward 73 councillor Amar Gurjar said three vehicles and three men on each vehicle can resolve garbage depot and garbage collection complaints of his ward.
JMC-Heritage recently signed a new contract with the garbage collection company asking them to increase the vehicles, but until the problem related to payments was resolved, no further decision will be taken.
Omkar Sapre, project head of garbage collection company, said hoopers are allotted in the city according to 2011 population, but councilors demand according to 2021 population.
“We have no problem in increasing the number of hoopers but then our payment should be made on time and as per 2021 population.
When you demand quality of work, where will payment come from as we have not been able to pay our employees for four months,” said Sapre.
In JMC-Greater as well, the situation is not good.
Ward 45 councillor Santosh Chaudhary has the biggest ward in the city.
“With 35,000 population, I require around five hoopers, but two have been provided which are not able to cover the entire area.
I get around 10 complaints daily and sometimes these hoopers don’t play music and have no fixed timings,” said Chaudhary.
Ward 89 councillor Giriraj Sharma and ward 141 councillor Abhishek Saini expressed similar concerns.
Acute crisis of hoopers in Jaipur adds to trash trouble
