JNNURM - GANGAPEDIA

City Development Plan for Agra City in the state of Uttar Pradesh under JNNURM
Nagar areas. Thus on account of limited and unorganized system of primary collection on
household level street sweeping is the only method left for primary collection.
Street Cleaning: The street sweeping operations are inefficient in the city. While one worker
sweeps the road, cleans the small drains, a second worker picks up the sweeping, which are
kept in heaps by the first one. The sweeping is collected in the traditional wheel barrow which
is taken to waste storage points and put either on ground or manually transferred to the
dumper placer containers. The total length of roads in the city is 1724 km and each sweeper
is entrusted 300-500 metres road length for street sweeping. The working hours of sweepers
are 7 hours per day and the work is not carried out on Sundays. Sweepers are given
containerized handcarts and wheelbarrows. There are approximately 800 wheelbarrows and
10 handcarts. For sweeping of streets, sweepers are paid at the rate of Rs.15 per month for
buying of the brooms. The brooms used are usually short handled. The various equipments
provided to the sweepers are ghamela, spade and collection trays.
Besides, the ANN has private sweepers engaged by the contractors in Tajganj ward at the 1
km periphery of Taj Mahal. In some parts of Tajganj ward the street sweeping is being
privatized.
Table 6.13: Number of Sweepers-2005
S. No. Type of worker Numbers
1. Departmental sweepers 2215
2. Contract sweepers 300
Total 2515
Sweeper Population ratio 507
Source: Health Department, Agra Nagar Nigam
b) Temporary Storage of Waste
At present there are about 561 waste storage depots in the city and out of which 225 are the
open storage points causing nuisance and unsanitary conditions. The distribution of
temporary waste storage point is non-uniform in the city.
Table 6.14: Temporary Storage Points for Collection of Solid Waste
S. No. Type of waste Storage depot Number
1. Open waste storage depots 225
2. Masonary waste storage depots 86
3. Dumper Placer Container (8 cmt) 150
4. Dumper Placer Container (4.5 cmt) 100
Total 561
Source: Health Department, Agra Nagar Nigam
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