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Centre to launch Neighbourhood Action Plan for better solid waste management

By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, SEPT 25, 2017: EMPHASISING that the country can’t be made clean without fixing the garbage problem in Delhi that has reached crisis proportion, Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri yesterday invoked the pride of being a resident of the national capital to spur people into collective action for effective solid waste management.

He participated in the ‘Swachhat Hi Sewa’ campaign at Bhikaji Cama Place in South Delhi by sweeping and collecting the litter and later addressed the people, sanitation workers and officials of the Ministry and South Delhi Municipal Corporation  who undertook shramdan along with him. He also inaugurated modern litter pickers imported by South MCD.

The Minister noted that being a citizen and resident of Delhi is a ‘matter of pride’ and is a unique privilege that brings several advantages in the form of better services and amenities not available in other cities. He quoted the example of Delhi Metro on which the central and State Governments incurred huge expenditure with more in the offing. Shri Puri said this pride would however, be punctured if Delhi is  not made clean and the garbage issue was not addressed properly.

Urging the people of Delhi into effective action, He said “I would like to invoke that pride of being residents of the national capital and shed lethargy and make due contribution to effective solid waste management so that we can overcome the garbage which is threatening to adversely impact the lives of all”.

Stating that solid waste management in cities is the major challenges in urban areas over the next two years of the mission, Mr Puri stressed on the need to convert the ‘individual connect’ with sanitation demand  into ‘social connect’ to ensure the success of the solid waste management chain through collective action. Noting that people have a better connect with immediate neighborhood, the Minister unveiled ‘My Home-My Neighborhood’ (Ghar Bi Saaf-Pados Bhi Saaf) campaign with the following six components:

1. Segregation of waste at source

2. Compost  making from wet waste within the premises/neighborhood/area

3. Recycling of dry waste

4.Freeing the neighborhood from open defecation and open urination

5. Motivating the residents of neighborhood against throwing  garbage in open spaces; and

6. Adopting a near by park or open place for collection and waste segregation.

Mr Puri said this neighborhood action plan leads to substantial reduction in the quantum of solid waste sent to landfill  besides enabling better performance of Waste-to –Compost and Waste-to-Energy plants. Neighborhood could be a residential housing society, a colony,mohalla,  market area etc., he said. 


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