BEST PRACTICES IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

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1 BEST PRACTICES IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT P.N. Patti Town Panchayat in Salem District 151

2 BEST PRACTICES IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT Ariyappampalayam Town Panchayat in Erode District 152

3 BEST PRACTICES IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT Thorapadi Town Panchayat in Cuddalore District 153

4 BEST PRACTICES IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT Solavandan Town Panchayat in Madurai District 154

5 MEDIA REPORTS 155

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10 MEDIA REPORTS 160

11 PORUR MODEL ACCELERATED GROOM UP CAMPAIGN A periodic week long Campaign mode approach to keep the Town Clean & Green Holistic cleaning and beautification of the entire Town Involves community and other stake holders in beautifying the Town Generate awareness and instill a sense of confidence among the community 161

12 PORUR MODEL CAMPAIGN A campign mode approach taken up once in four months in all 561 Town Panchayats Accelarated groomup campign to steerup the momentum of awareness

13 WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - A CAMPAIGN MODE Students our clean and green ambassadors in action to mend ways and sustain awareness

14 LOCAL BODY DAY - CAMPAIGN MODE APPROACH The Fulcrum of awarness, re-enforce messages

15 MY TOWN MY PRIDE My Town My Pride - I Keep it clean and green It is the message that has been popularised in every Town Panchayat including Tsunami affected towns to propagate the idea of Clean and Green Concepts among the people and to instill sense of ownership and pride among them. 165

16 CLEAN & GREEN TOWN CONCEPT 166

17 BEST PRACTICES DOCUMENTS COMPILED BY DISTRICTS AND TSUNAMI UNIT 167

18 SANITATION DIGEST The UN proclaimed International decade Water for Life directly reinforces and urges countries to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) under MDG 7, which calls for to ensure environmental sustainability. It is directly linked to drinking water and basic sanitation and specially calls for to: Halve by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The UN General Assembly declared 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation to put the spotlight on this issue, recognizing the impact of sanitation on public health, poverty reduction, economic and social development, and the environment. The goal is to raise awareness and to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by ( o National Conservation Strategy & Policy Statement on Environment and Development, 1992 o The Policy Statement for Abatement of Pollution 1992 o National Environment Policy (NEP) 2006 National Environment Policy (NEP) 2006 o o o National Clean Development Mechanism Authority (NCDMA) Scheme for Registration of Recyclers/Reprocessors Promotion of Cleaner Technologies and Waste Minimization Circle National Urban Sanitation Policy 2008 o Sanitation Connect - International Sanitation goals at a glance Sanitation Links - National Policy Initiatives New Delhi declarations of the Third South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN III) hosted by India during November 2008 Sanitation Reach - Initiatives of Government of Tamil Nadu o o o o Policy note under Demand No:34 of Municipal and Water Supply department Announcements of the the Hon ble Minister for Local Administration and Water Supply Hand Book on Solid Waste Management published by the Comissionerate of Town Panchayats Waste Management Strategy and vision document of Town Panchayats 168

19 NATIONAL URBAN SANITATION POLICY - SNAPSHOT The Government of India unveiled National Urban sanitation Policy during November It envisages to promote provision of household toilets apart from community planned and managed toilets where there are constraints of space. The policy also emphasies safe disposal of waste water, recycling of treated waste water, and managing of public sanitation facilities including Solid Waste Management in all urban areas. The vision for Urban Sanitation in India is: All Indian cities and towns should become totally sanitised, healthy and habitable to ensure and sustain good public health and improved environmental outcomes for all their citizens with a special focus on hygienic and affordable sanitation facilities to the urban poor and women. The Government has identified 100% sanitation as a goal during the 11th Five Year Plan [ ]. The main elements of the policy are financial assistance for state level sanitation strategies and city level plans and Detailed Project Reports (DPRs), promoting Public Private Partnership (PPP), awareness generation and capacity building etc. The policy envisages an annual rating schemes for all Class-I cities and institution of an annual award. 169

20 NATIONAL URBAN SANITATION POLICY The goals include awareness generation and behavioural change, elimination of open defecation, integrated city-wide sanitation, safe disposal and proper operation and maintenance of all sanitary installations. The policy focuses on achievements of outcomes rather than on mere construction of infrastructure, and emphasises building capacities at the city level The Government will help formulating and implementing a strategy on capacity building and training to support states to build their personnel capacities and organisational systems for delivery of sanitation services. The Ministry of Urban Development has instituted Nirmal Shahar Puraskar, an initiative under the policy which aims at carrying out ratings of cities on various parameters related to sanitation and award for excellence in performance. The award focuses on creating healthy competition amongst the cities and mainstreaming sanitation. This will be done through a rating system where cities will be colour-coded: Red symbolising very bad ; black for needs improvement ; blue for recovering and green healthy city. The point system based on several parameters - no open defecation, disposal processes, quality of water among others. Concept of Totally Sanitised Towns A totally Sanitized Town Panchayat will be one that has achieved the outputs or milestones specified in the National Urban Sanitation policy, the salient features of which are as follows: Towns must be open defecation free Must eliminate the practice of manual scavenging and provide adequate personnel protection equipment that addresses the safety of sanitation workers. Municipal wastewater and storm water drainage must be safely managed Recycle and reuse of treated wastewater for non potable applications should be implemented wherever possible. Solid Waste collected and disposed off fully and safely Services to the Poor and Systems for Sustaining Results Improved Public Health Outcomes and Environmental standards 170

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23 SWM Enforcement Acts Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 Tamil Nadu Public Health Act, 1939 The Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986 Bio-medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998 Hazardous Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2000 Municipal Solid Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2000 The mandatory recommendations of the Hon ble Supreme Court Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001 Plastic Manufacture and use rules 1999 with amendments in 2003 NGO Partners 1. Excellent Novel and Radical International (EXNORA), Chennai 2. Hand in Hand (HiH), Chennai 3. Indian National Trust for Art, Culture and Heritage (INTACH), Pondicherry 4. Society for Community & Peoples Education (SCOPE) Trichy 5. Eco Solutions of Mr. Paul Calvert, Mamallapuram / Thiruvananthapuram 6. Eco Services Fundation, Pune 7. Gramalaya, Trichy Editorial Committee Dr.K. GOPAL, I.A.S., Commissioner of Town Panchayats Mr. V. Ananth Natarajan, B.E., Executive Engineer Mr. K. Vivekanandan, M.E., Environmental Specialist Mr. S. Abdul Khaleel, Executive Officer (Special Grade) Mr. R. Gandhi, Executive Officer (Administration) Documentation Support Mr. M. Nasar Basha, M.C.A., System Analyst Mr. R. Rajeswaran, Executive Officer (Accounts) Mr. M. Vijay Ram Murugan, Assistant Programmer Mr. B. Moovendra Pandian, Assistant Published by : The Commissionarate of Town Panchayat Printed at : Royapettah Industrial Co-coperative Society Press, Chennai -14.

24 Commissionerate of Town Panchayats Kuralagam IV Floor, Chennai Phone : , Fax : Id- dtp@tn.nic.in, dtp.tn@rediffmail.com