Solid Waste Management

Treat waste, earn grades

Friday, 22 March 2013 08:14 administrator

The New Indian Express 22.03.2013

At a time when the waste management became a tough challenge to Tripunithura municipality, its annual budget introduces promising plans to regain the lost glory of the local body in the arena.

As per the new vision, the hotels, the private firms and flats which are effectively implementing systems to treat solid and liquid waste will be granted grades and certificates. An amount of Rs 1 lakh has been earmarked for the proposal.

“There will be a monitoring committee under the Health Department to grade the institutions. Every year, the highly graded hotels, private firms and flats will be given cash awards. The first prize declared as Rs 10,000 and second and third price will be Rs 5000 and Rs 3000 respectively,” said municipal chairman R Venugopal.

He further said that the award programme has also a additional advantage. “People will get quality food and service from the hotels even in the local area. The prizes will be an encouragement to the hotels to serve better food. They will rate the hotels, flats and private firms,” he said.

The decision was taken to revive the lost glory of the municipality in the field of waste management. “The municipality has been selected as the best local body in waste management in 2010. Now, we want to recapture the place,” he said.

The budget also plans to secure ISO 9001, 2008 certificates. “The certificates can be achieved only after following some norms and regulations. The norms will also increase the quality in waste management of the municipality,” he said.

The budget also addresses the illegal dumping of waste on the roads. The tanker lorries from the city which are dumping slaughter house waste and septic waste in the area will be controlled by installing surveillance cameras in the area. A total of Rs 10 lakh has been earmarked to the proposal.

A solid waste treatment plant for plastic will also be set up in the municipality. For this, Rs 10 lakh has been earmarked. The plastic waste will be developed as granules in the plant.

Massive campaign ahead of GVMC’s new SWM programme

Friday, 22 March 2013 04:07 administrator

The Hindu 22.03.2013

Massive campaign ahead of GVMC’s new SWM programme

G. V. Prasada Sarma

A massive campaign involving officials, teachers, members of self-help group federations and residents will be launched soon by the GVMC as a forerunner to its implementation of decentralised solid waste management programme. In the new SWM, wet and dry garbage will be collected at the doorstep of residents for disposal in each of the zones.

In each zone an official each from Town Planning, Public Health, Revenue, Engineering and Urban Community Development are picked up to form six teams. Besides, a nodal officer is appointed for each zone to pursue various proposals and clear bottlenecks at various levels leading to the final implementation.

Besides, 15 teachers working as mandal resource persons have been selected in consultation with the School Education Department authorities and 15 teachers from corporation schools. “The teachers have been told clearly about the training they have to undertake in schools and colleges and only those who are interested have been selected,” Additional Commissioner (Finance) P. Purnachandra Rao told The Hindu on Thursday.

The list of schools, including private schools numbering 900, junior colleges and colleges has been obtained from the authorities concerned. Under the leadership of the Deputy Education Officer, the Supervisor of Schools, the Project Officer of Balyam and the Director of Sports they will cover all the educational institutions.

To cover households, 60 women of slum-level self-help group federations have been selected. They will campaign among SHG members. The zone-level team will be deployed among various sections to set up their own composting or roof-top biogas plants. Each of them will cover different sections of people.

The modules that are prepared to train various groups are awaiting a final nod by Joint Director of Municipal Administration S. Khader Saheb who has successfully implemented the SWM at Suryapet in Nalgonda district.

“Once the modules are ready, the various groups that will be involved in the campaign will be trained for a day or two. After that they will fan out and take up the campaign for a fortnight setting the stage for the final launch,” Mr. Purnachandra Rao said. The dates are not yet finalised.

Residents will also be involved with a senior citizen, a student and an SHG member forming a team for 50 houses. They will be primarily overseeing whether the wet and dry garbage is being picked up as per the route map finalised for every 300 houses.

The modules that are prepared to train various groups are awaiting a final nod.