The latest table of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) handling/processing techniques used in different Indian cities is present at the beginning of the blog, under the blog's header. Scroll down, play around the FILTER keys option for a variety of insights about the present situation of MSW management in India.
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Waste management was a house hold responsibility, but got transferred to centralized institutions due to shrinking living space and globalization. The Government of India (GOI) controls policy and regulations through Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF), Ministry of Urban Development (MOUD), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). However, it is the responsibility of city administrations (municipal corporations) to enact these regulations, acting as a link between public and the government. GOI also provides the municipal corporations with tools like guides (National Master Plan for Development of Waste-to-Energy in India) and funding through initiatives like Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) to implement the regulations. Thus, municipalities are totally accountable to both public and the government and hold the most important role when it comes to waste management.
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Waste management was a house hold responsibility, but got transferred to centralized institutions due to shrinking living space and globalization. The Government of India (GOI) controls policy and regulations through Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF), Ministry of Urban Development (MOUD), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). However, it is the responsibility of city administrations (municipal corporations) to enact these regulations, acting as a link between public and the government. GOI also provides the municipal corporations with tools like guides (National Master Plan for Development of Waste-to-Energy in India) and funding through initiatives like Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) to implement the regulations. Thus, municipalities are totally accountable to both public and the government and hold the most important role when it comes to waste management.
In wake of rapid urbanization and need for sustainable design, cities are being studied as single units. Subjects like Urban Metabolism and grand projects like Sustainable Cities are justified and are gaining importance as majority of global environmental foot print is due to city dwellers. Human wisdom suggests that the person who minds not only his belongings but also his wastes is of the utmost conscience. This could be applied to cities as individuals.
In 1994, the city of Surat took emergency solid waste management (SWM) measures through out the municipal cooporation to tackle Human plague to become the first city to implement SWM on such a scale in India. Indians generate an estimated 50 million tons of solid wastes per year.
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References
- 2008, Sunil Kumar, J.K. Bhattacharyya, A.N. Vaidya, Tapan Chakrabarti, Sukumar Devotta, A.B. Akolkar; Assessment of the Status of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Metro Cities, State Capitals, Class I Cities and Class II Towns in India: An Insight
- 2003, Technical Memorandum on Waste-to-Energy Technologies, National Master Plan for Development of Waste-to-Energy in India, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
- Personal communication with S.R. Maley
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