Mysuru City Corporation has decided to install public dustbins at 100 identified locations across the city to improve waste collection and ensure scientific disposal. The initiative will cover busy markets, bus stops, commercial streets, parks, and other public spaces. As part of the pilot phase, dustbins have been placed along Devaraj Urs Road and around Mysuru Palace premises. Civic authorities hope the initiative will help reduce littering and improve cleanliness standards in high-footfall areas before the project is expanded to additional locations across the city.
The dustbins have been arranged under the CSR funds provided by SBI Foundation and Green Squad. Currently, it has placed steel dustbins to collect dry and wet waste separately at every 100 meters distance along the 900-meters stretch of D Devaraj Urs Road and Mysuru Palace surroundings. Vendors doing business on D Devaraj Urs Road and Mysuru Palace surroundings have been instructed to ensure their customers use the dustbins installed by them on the streets, besides sensitizing public, tourists, citizens visiting their shops.
Also, civic workers have been directed to clear the waste that accumulates in these dustbins three times a day, depending on the amount of waste collected, and transport the waste to the dumping yard. A Green Squad has been entrusted with the monitoring work in these places. They must ensure these places look clean, tidy, without any dumping of waste by shopkeepers, vendors, and the public. Mysuru City Corporation has also provided the squad with a brooming machine worth Rs 85 lakh to ensure the streets near Mysuru Palace, D Devaraj Urs are kept clean.
Depending upon the success of this new initiative, Mysuru City Corporation has decided to place similar kind of steel dustbins to collect dry and wet waste separately near prominent tourist spots like Mysuru zoo, Karanji Lake Park, St Philomena’s Cathedral, Chamundi Hills, among other spots. Mysuru City Corporation Swachata nodal officer KS Mruthyunjaya said that Mysuru City Corporation has decided to place public dustbins in prominent tourist spots, busy commercial, shopping streets to curb roadside littering, besides to ensure cleanliness of these places. Mysuru City Corporation has also sensitized street vendors, D Devaraj Urs Road Tenants Association, and other stakeholders in the city to cooperate with the civic body to keep the city clean and to promote tourism.