Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
Solid Waste Management Department
Helping make CLEAN Mumbai
Clean-Up Mumbai Campaign
An MCGM Initiative
Mumbai Facts
• Every public space is splattered with paan stains and there is litter on the streets besides the odd pile of debris and garbage. • Mumbai Produces 6500 tons of Garbage per day. • Also produces nearly 2500 tons of construction and demolition (C&D) waste per day. • Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) allots 10% of its annual budget for Solid Waste Management i.e. Rs.1200 crore.
The Bye-laws 2006
• Byelaws, 2006: have a provision to fine citizens who engage in spitting, littering and other nuisances in public spaces. • Considering the limited human resource, MCGM has taken up an innovative step to authorize private security agencies to fine the defaulters for breaching the byelaws. • These security agencies will deploy Clean-Up Marshals in the various wards who will patrol 24/7 and fine the offenders.
Salient Features of Campaign
MCGM will not pay anything to the security agencies for their services and in turn has agreed to share 50 percent of the fine collected. Security agencies to deploy Clean-up Marshals in the various wards who will patrol all the 24 wards of the city and enforce the cleanliness bye laws. Thus, the campaign encompasses: 1. provision of additional facilities for cleanliness 2. education and awareness generation 3. enforcement of bye-laws by fining offenders with the help of Clean-up Marshals
Salient Features of Campaign
• All the clean-up marshals working for implementation of Byelaws will have to wear uniform, as prescribed by the MCGM. • 50% of the fine amount collected in each ward and will go to the respective security agency. • The revenue generated out of this, will be spent on Solid Waste Management (SWM) activities. • In order to ensure the effective performance, MCGM has empowered the citizens to do the