A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has ordered that refuse compactor vehicles available with the Kochi Corporation for waste removal be repaired to the extent possible and put to effective use at the earliest.
When the suo motu case registered in the wake of the fire outbreak at Brahmapuram came up for hearing recently, the Corporation submitted that out of the 13 refuse compactor vehicles, 11 could be made road-worthy and put to use. The compactor vehicles had already been repaired while three more could be repaired immediately. The Corporation secretary assured the court that apart from the seven, four more refuse compactors could be repaired and work in that regard was going on smoothly.
The court also directed the Corporation to explore the possibility of setting up sanitary napkin incinerators at various establishments in the city.
