Mizoram Village Councils to Undertake Garbage Disposal

Aizawl, Oct 4 : In accordance with the decision of Mizoram’s Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation department, 60 village councils in state capital have undertaken garbage disposal responsibility on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode from today.

The state UD and PA department disbursed Rs 10.17 lakh, half of the proposed expenditure for October, to the village council Presidents on Saturday last by the Secretary of the department P. Lianhrima.

He said that the rest of the fund for the month would be disbursed after the VCs produced utilization certificates.

With the introduction of garbage disposal on PPP mode, the UD and PA would discontinue the service of trucks to collect garbage's from all the localities in Aizawl and additional expenditure required for the exercise would be met from the contributions of the people.

The PPP mode experiment would be initially taken up for six months and would be extended to all over the city if found to be successful.