DHAKA, May 27, 2021 (BSS) – Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation
(DSCC) Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today said that there won’t
be any more waste in the open in Dhaka city as DSCC has taken plans to
manage city waste in a modern and systematic way.
“We efficiently conducted waste management activities last year. Our
goal is to have a central waste disposal center in each ward. We don’t
want to see open space filled with waste in Dhaka city anymore,”
Taposh made the remarks at the inauguration ceremony of the Interim
Waste Transfer Center at Ward 40 of the city today, said a press
release.
“We have made a new schedule for waste management in the city.
According to the schedule, the registered primary waste service
providers of each ward will collect waste from houses, establishments,
business establishments and take it to the central waste transfer
center and from there we will be taken to the waste depositing land,”
he said.
Mentioning that steps have been taken to set up central waste
transfer centers in each ward by next December, he said, “We will
procure 30 compacts by next year, through which we will be able to
take the waste directly to the central waste management centre, as
these wastes during monsoon flows into the sewers and cause water
logging there.”
Kazi Firoz Rashid, MP from Dhaka-6 constituency, thanked the mayor
for this central waste disposal center.
City Corporation Chief Executive Officer Farid Ahmed, Chief Waste
Management Officer Air Commodore Mohammad Badrul Amin, Secretary
Akramuzzaman, Chief Revenue Officer Ariful Haque and Supervising
Engineer Kazi Borhan Uddin, among others, were present on the
occasion.