The Business Line 11.11.2009
14 civic bodies take up waste management
Our Bureau
Kolkata, Nov. 10 At the first International Conference on Solid Waste Management (IconSWM) held here recently, nearly 14 municipality bodies in the country came forward to undertake solid waste management projects, involving Rs 24 crore investment, in the next three years, according to Professor Sadhan K. Ghosh, Chairman, IconSWM, and the Coordinator, Centre for Quality Management System (CQMS), Jadavpur University.
Giving this information to newspersons here on Monday, Prof Ghosh said, “The projects would be taken up by the urban local bodies and monitored by the three nodal bodies, CQMS, the Air and Waste Management Association of India and the Central Board for Workers’ Education (under the Ministry of Labour).” The municipalities were likely to undertake the projects in the PPP model, he added.
Out of the 14 municipalities undertaking the projects, eight are from West Bengal while five are from the southern regions like the municipalities of Tirupathi and Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh), Karwar, Srirangapatnam and Mysore (Karnataka). One municipality, Mandavinagar, is from Gujarat.
Some of the major projects to be undertaken were conversion of solid waste to organic fertilisers (Kamarhati Municipality), waste dumping clearance (Tirupathi), integrated solid waste management (Durgapur), collection system efficiency (Karwar), vermiculture and recycling of paper (Mandavinagar) collection and segregation of waste and compost manure, construction of compost plant including separate disposal of biomedical waste, etc, Professor Ghosh said.
