No system for monitoring sanitation services: CAG

Government auditor CAG has pointed out several irregularities in garbage collection and disposal by municipal corporations and stated that civic agencies neither have "perspective plan", nor any system for monitoring sanitation services.
The CAG report highlighted that Delhi, on an average, produces 7,172 tonnes of garbage, 2,773 ton of construction and demolition (C&D) waste and 664 ton of silt daily.
"None of MCsD neither has a perspective plan with defined objectives for sanitation services, nor any system for monitoring day to day sanitation activities like - sweeping of roads, de-silting of drains, cleaning of urinals, etc," the CAG report stated.

At present, garbage is collected from door to door only in two zones (Rohini and Civil Lines) of North DMC. Though, in all the three corporations, auto tippers (small vehicles) were deployed for garbage collection from narrow lanes and roads, waste was not being collected from doorsteps.
Repot stated that out of 3,204 storage facilities for first stage collection of garbage, 499 (15%) were open sites. Storage of garbage in open is hazardous to healthy environment, as most open sites are located within thickly populated areas.
During 2013-14, segregation of garbage was 57 per cent in North DMC and 17 per cent in South DMC. There was no segregation of garbage in East DMC, NDMC, and Delhi Cantonment Board.

"Out of 26.18 lakh ton of garbage generated in 2013-14, only 6.62 lakh ton (25.3%) was segregated into bio-degradable and other categories. Decomposition of bio-degradable waste at Sanitary Land Fills (SLFs) pollutes environment and produces greenhouse gases," report said.

Delhi has only four garbage processing plants with total daily processing capacity of 2,929 tonnes and a construction and demolition (C&D) waste processing plant.
"During 2013-14, only 41 per cent of the garbage and 47 per cent of C&D waste was processed, while the rest was dumped at SLFs," report said.
As per CAGs findings, inspite of directions from the Supreme Court, the DDA did not provide adequate land for landfills to local bodies. Against a requirement of 600 acres of land, only 324.60 acres were allotted, out of which only 150 acres was found suitable for SLFs but the rest was unsuitable.

"Due to poor contract management by MCD and un-satisfactory services of private concessionaires, matter of maintenance of waterless urinals was under litigation and general public was deprived of quality urinal facilities in spite of construction of 567 urinals at a cost of Rs 22.96 crore," the report said.