Cleanliness in Fruit/Vegetable Markets: Solutions
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Swachh Bharat Mission
Solutions for Cleanliness in fruit and vegetable markets and mandis
1. Vendors should be asked to clean the area around their shop when they leave everyday
2. The municipality officers should start challaning the vendors who do not keep the area around their shop clean
3. The market association of these vegetable markets should make sure that the vendors do not throw the garbage on roads
4. They should also come out with a plan to dispose the excess waste that the market generates like donating it to cow shelters or bio-gas plants etc.
5. The municipalities should be asked to devote extra resources towards keeping these fruits and vegetable markets clean
6. Garbage should be segregated first at the unpacking level
7. Discards of vegetables and fruits should be used for the consumption of animals
8. The spoilt ones which has to be thrown can be collected for bio degradation separately for manure and fertilizer
9. The non-biodegradables and plastics to collected in separate containers
10. The garbage should be cleared every 2 hours and the expenditure should be covered by all the shops together
11. Some senior municipal officer should make surprise visit to these markets to ascertain the cleanliness level
12. Continued publicity for cleanliness and display boards should be installed in every corners of the markets/mandis in English and Hindi or local language
13. The municipality could give a large bin to each vendor
14. Trucks and vans that transport the vegetable and fruits should be allowed strictly during specified times only. more
I think government should return the 5 rupees and ask the vendors to keep the venue clean. more