State govt warns Secretariat staff against dumping domestic garbage on office premises
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Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has issued stringent directions to the employees of the Secretariat against dumping household garbage on the office premises.
The order came after it came to the notice of the administration that some employees were bringing waste from their homes and dumping in the bins placed at the complex.
The general administration department, which oversees the administrative duties of employees after coming to know about this, has now warned them by issuing the circular.
Strict action will be taken if employees continue to dump home waste in the Secretariat complex.
During the pre-monsoon cleaning operation at the secretariat, it was discovered that some employees were bringing and depositing their domestic garbage on the premises. Food and vegetable wastes as well as sanitary pads were also discovered as brought from their homes in the bucket.
Initially, when the waste in large quantities was found in the bins of the Secretariat, it was dismissed as waste generated from the Secretariat, but when the volume of waste continued to pile up, it was found out that the employees were dumping home waste.
The order comes at a time when the State Minister for Local Self Government M.B. Rajesh has come out with a directive asking all houses to ensure that they deposit their home waste to domestic waste collectors that are commissioned by the local body, especially in the Corporation areas of the state, at a specified fee.
In the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation areas, a sum of Rs 100 every month is being charged for collecting plastic waste once a week.