The covered and wheeled containers are made locally at a cost of Tk 3 lakh, said a high official at the mechanical division of the DCC.

"We have not yet selected the places to install these containers. But these are needed in the areas like Karwan Bazar and Santinagar kitchen markets that produce huge amount of garbage," said DCC's Chief Conservancy Officer Sohel Farouquie.

DCC introduced wheeled garbage containers as a pilot project in July last year. The first such garbage container was kept behind New Market. DCC officials said the success of this project inspired them to install more such containers.

Although DCC is trying to improve garbage management, it still depends on the cleaners who start work early in the morning, sweep roads and collect garbage.

A DCC official seeking anonymity said the city of about 1 crore people cannot be kept clean due to lack of manpower and infrastructure. The DCC has 7,156 cleaners for 82 wards -- less than 50 percent of the required manpower, he said.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), at least two cleaners are required for every 1,000 dwellers even if modern garbage cleaning technology is available. The current ratio in Dhaka city is less than one cleaner for every 1,000 people.

The open garbage containers of DCC are not properly handled for waste disposal. "In most places people litter garbage around the open containers instead of throwing garbage inside those," said Alimul Haque, a resident of Rajarbagh.

Another problem in waste disposal is the manual transportation of garbage that makes the areas around the containers unclean as the garbage in wheelbarrows is thrown onto the road and hauled into the garbage carrying trucks.

But the wheeled containers having a ramp at the back will enable cleaners to push wheelbarrows inside it and unload waste inside. "It will leave the places around containers free of garbage," Farouquie said.

He however said DCC cleaners have to be more active in removing and cleaning garbage to ensure best use of the wheeled containers.

He said lack of washing plant hampers cleaning of garbage containers, when asked about the first wheeled container behind New Market that remains dirty. "We are planning to set up washing plants at Matuail to resolve the problem," he said.