MCC enhances civic amenities for Street Vendors across Chandigarh
Chandigarh, January 5:- The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh is actively and continuously monitoring all notified vending zones across the city to ensure the availability of essential civic amenities for street vendors, reaffirming its commitment to their welfare, convenience, and dignified working conditions.
As part of this ongoing initiative, the Engineering Wing (B&R), MCC has identified nine locations where mobile toilet facilities are urgently required. Necessary steps are being taken to install these facilities at the earliest. In addition, 27 vending sites have been identified where water tankers are needed, and arrangements are being finalized to ensure regular and adequate water supply at these locations in the near future.
It is noteworthy that vending zones in Sectors 7-C (Site-C), 10-D, 19-C, 21-C, 22-D, 28-C (Site-B), 29-C, 33-D, 49-D, 50-C, 53-B, Maloya-1, Rehab Colony Maloya-A, IT Park, and Manimajra (MHC) are already fully equipped with essential civic amenities, including drinking water arrangements and toilet facilities. These provisions ensure a safe, hygienic, and orderly environment for street vendors and the general public alike.
Through these proactive measures, MCC continues to strengthen its efforts towards inclusive urban development, public health, and cleanliness, while also promoting regulated and organized street vending across the city.
The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh reiterates that the welfare of street vendors remains a top priority, and sustained efforts will continue to further upgrade infrastructure and civic facilities in all vending zones to enhance their quality of life and working conditions.
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MCC intensifies Door-to-Door Waste Segregation awareness & survey drive in southern sectors and villages
Chandigarh, January 5:-In a major push towards achieving 100 percent waste segregation at source, the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh has launched a special door-to-door waste segregation awareness campaign across villages and colonies in the southern sectors of the city.
Under this focused initiative, women members of Self Help Groups (SHGs) are visiting every household to educate residents about the importance and correct methods of segregating domestic waste. Informative pamphlets are being distributed at each doorstep, clearly explaining the four types of waste segregation—wet, dry, sanitary and hazardous waste—to enable citizens to adopt best practices at the household level.
During the interaction, residents are also being sensitised that non-segregation of waste will attract penalties and that unsegregated waste will not be lifted by MCC until segregation is ensured at source. The campaign aims to instil a sense of responsibility among citizens and promote behavioural change for sustainable waste management.
Simultaneously, MCC is conducting a detailed household-level survey in these villages and colonies to ensure that every unit hands over properly segregated waste to the MCC’s door-to-door garbage collection staff. Dedicated teams of SHG women have been engaged to ensure complete coverage of each household and to create mass awareness about segregation, which is mandatory for efficient transportation, processing and scientific disposal of waste.
This comprehensive awareness and survey drive is expected to yield significant results by ensuring fully segregated garbage collection from these areas, thereby improving overall sanitation standards and contributing to a cleaner, healthier and more sustainable Chandigarh.