Photos by Rahul Deshmukh
Zealous to maintain hygiene amid pandemic, PMC sanitary officers in Hadapsar lie in wait for citizens dumping mixed waste in the open and make them pick it all up on the spot, besides levying a fine. Officials even segregate it themselves before sending ahead for processing.
Most of us might be stuck home every day due to the
COVID-19 pandemic and workfrom-home (WFH) scenario, but sanitary inspectors of the Hadapsar ward office are having a field day, quite literally, daily.
Officials of the solid waste management (SWM) department of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) spend their mornings playing ‘chor police’ laying traps to catch offenders throwing garbage at open plots in the Mohammadwadi area.