PATNA: A2Z Infrastructure Private Limited, a common sight on sanitation bins in select localities of the city, would soon make its presence felt in the entire state capital.
A2Z is currently responsible for sanitation and waste disposal from nine main roads and 10 of the 72 municipal wards of the city. The state government recently decided to hire the private agency to provide sanitation services to the entire city.
The agency is gearing up to take the bigger responsibility and it recently carried out a survey in the Bankipore and New Capital circles of Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC). "We hope to complete the survey in all the PMC circles by the end of next month. And we are likely to expand our area of operations from March this year," A2Z AGM Vikash Jha told TOI.
The agency proposes a door-to-door garbage collection system. "Our workers would collect the garbage from every house in the morning," Jha said and added four large bins would be provided for every 100 households.
The agency has at its disposal in Patna 120 mini trucks and nine large trucks to transport out the garbage collected by its 450-odd workers.
"We have adequate infrastructure for the current workload. We are already on the job to strengthen our workforce and supplement our infrastructure in proportion to the increased workload," Jha said and added A2Z also plans to organise public awareness events on a regular basis to instill civic sense into residents.
As per the agreement with PMC, A2Z currently looks after Fraser Road, Bailey Road, Beerchand Patel Path, Boring Road, Boring Canal Road, Exhibition Road, Ashok Rajpath, Old Bypass Road and Hardinge Road.
However, not everyone is impressed with A2Z performance. Complaints about heaps of garbage in many areas looked after A2Z were a common refrain as TOI spoke to several Patnaites.
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A2Z is currently responsible for sanitation and waste disposal from nine main roads and 10 of the 72 municipal wards of the city. The state government recently decided to hire the private agency to provide sanitation services to the entire city.
The agency is gearing up to take the bigger responsibility and it recently carried out a survey in the Bankipore and New Capital circles of Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC). "We hope to complete the survey in all the PMC circles by the end of next month. And we are likely to expand our area of operations from March this year," A2Z AGM Vikash Jha told TOI.
The agency proposes a door-to-door garbage collection system. "Our workers would collect the garbage from every house in the morning," Jha said and added four large bins would be provided for every 100 households.
The agency has at its disposal in Patna 120 mini trucks and nine large trucks to transport out the garbage collected by its 450-odd workers.
"We have adequate infrastructure for the current workload. We are already on the job to strengthen our workforce and supplement our infrastructure in proportion to the increased workload," Jha said and added A2Z also plans to organise public awareness events on a regular basis to instill civic sense into residents.
As per the agreement with PMC, A2Z currently looks after Fraser Road, Bailey Road, Beerchand Patel Path, Boring Road, Boring Canal Road, Exhibition Road, Ashok Rajpath, Old Bypass Road and Hardinge Road.
However, not everyone is impressed with A2Z performance. Complaints about heaps of garbage in many areas looked after A2Z were a common refrain as TOI spoke to several Patnaites.
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