Dhaka, Kolkata city corporations sign MoU for waste management

[Black_cats]

Dhaka, Kolkata city corporations sign MoU for waste management
Prothom Alo English Desk | Update: 10:53, Feb 10, 2019

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The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to exchange the best practices of the two cities, reports UNB quoting a Times of India news report.

This agreement will enable the two city corporations exchange technologies to provide better services to residents of Dhaka and Kolkata.

DSCC mayor Sayeed Khokon, along with a delegation from Bangladesh, visited the KMC headquarters and held a meeting with mayor Firhad Hakim.

Khokon told reporters he was particularly interested in Kolkata’s waste disposal system as he found the city much cleaner than earlier.

“I was really impressed seeing how clean Kolkata has become. Going back to Dhaka, I will send a team, who will interact with their Kolkata counterparts on this,” he said.

“Collaboration of Dhaka and Kolkata is essential for having a sustained relationship of friendship. More such visits will follow from both the sides,” the DSCC mayor added.

The Kolkata mayor said the KMC would also send its officials to Dhaka to learn about the modernisation plan for Dhaka.

“We have signed a MoU. We’re keen on exchanging our technical expertise with the Dhaka civic officials,” Hakim said newsmen.

According to sources in KMC, the areas that have been identified for collaboration include solid waste management, healthcare, education, traffic management etc.

 

[bluesky]

The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to exchange the best practices of the two cities, reports UNB quoting a Times of India news report.

The BD and Indian Mayors should take a 1-year job training course on waste disposal to either Singapore or Japan instead of exchanging non-existent disposal practices in Dhaka and Kolkata. I have little idea about Kolkata, but Dhaka city itself is a large waste dumping ground. Throw anything anywhere as you like.

 

[Bilal9]

This is good - Kolkata has 'cost-effective' ideas on waste disposal. We should adopt them. Going to other South East Asian countries for their practices is a later step.

Here is a Tuk-tuk based neighborhood waste disposal system in Thailand (there are similar daily collection neighborhood systems in the Philippines as well. The containers are plastic I believe (Roto-molded like our Gazi Tank water containers).

System in Japan, smaller than in Western countries but similar

Large scale systems for industrial and commercial garbage/waste collection in Thailand are not much different from Bangladesh and India.

 

[bluesky]

Posting a few stupid photographs does not solve the issue of garbage disposal. Mayors or others just do not know how to articulate a proper and functional disposal system of which the garbage trucks are a small part. Tokyo has donated 23 units of garbage trucks to Dhaka city quite a long time ago. But, these are being rusted under the Sun without doing any jobs.

Training of the field and office workforce and preparing the weekly collection schedule for each Mahalla is what takes time to learn and requires lessons and training by those who are already performing this job in other countries. Dhaka city offices are run only by the dumb people from whom I do not expect anything proper to come out.

They are as stupid as the big talking BD members in this forum. Mayor Anisul Haq was the only capable person who died, unfortunately.