Managing Waste

Updated on: Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The programme saw active participation from countries like the US, Australia, Sri Lanka, Italy and Japan and more than 50 municipalities across India. The private sector also participated and provided customised solutions for the disposal of waste and reducing pollution. The purpose of the exercise was to turn waste into products, ideas, processes and services to improve hygiene and develop alternate recourses.

Sadhan K Ghosh of Jadavpur University said, “We want to promote door to door collection of garbage and use it for generating alternate resources.” He also stressed on the importance of rehabilitating rag pickers and providing them some medical benefits as they are an important part of waste disposal.

About public private partnerships (PPP) Gazanfar Ibrahim of Good Governance Foundation said, “Through the exhibition we intend to provide solutions to different municipalities in the form of equipment and know how. We hope some deals will be struck and there will be visible difference in our country soon.”

The conference was also attended by the mayors of Mangalore, Patna, Chandigarh, Mysore and Durgapur. Awareness was also created about the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, a new scheme, which the government has floated to improve municipal services and urban development nationwide.

SK Roy of the ministry of labour said, “A few models to achieve optimum waste disposal will be adopted and after maybe a year of implementation the best one will be chosen to be used all over the country.

Managing Waste

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