Integrated Solid Waste Management Project for Raichur City

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Integrated Solid Waste Management Project for
Raichur City

• Project Partners
• City Municipal Council, Raichur
• ASTRA, IISc, Bangalore
• Environment Support Group
• Project Sponsors
• Indo Norwegian Environment Programme
• Directorate of Municipal Administration

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ESGs approach Interaction with various sectors

• ESG surveyed the needs of various stakeholders to
  understand their SWM needs.
• This helped develop linkages across sectors and
  their organisations.
• Some major target groups included hotel
  associations, vegetable market, ganj and kirana
  markets, pigowners association, schools and
  colleges, NGOs, media, etc.

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Government Policy and Practice

• Various changes have occurred in the past few
  years in policies relating to SWM. In addition to
  Supreme Court orders directing all Class I cities
  to develop SWM proposals, Ministry of Environment
  and Forests has legislated Rules for the same
• The Government of Karnatka evolved a new policy
  during July 2004 which proposes the involvement
  of Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) for collection
  of solid waste from non-slum regions of urban
  areas. The slums were to be covered by
  Pourakarmikas (PKs) hired by the CMC.
• ESG was required to train SHGs and PKs, and in
  addition help CMC develop Management Action Plan
  through a consultative process. Much depended on
  how the CMC would deliver on its activities,
  especially in providing SWM infrastructure and
  human resources.

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Development of SWM systems strategy

• When work commenced, the CMC had no maps. To
  fill this gap, ESG developed comprehensive maps
  to ward level detail (landuse, contours, physical
  infrastructure, demographic data, public health
  information, etc), utilising Survey of India
  topo-sheets and Raichur Development Authority
  Land Use maps.
• This helped us understand the scale and severity
  of the problem, and later aided our involvement
  in helping CMC develop their Management Action
  Plan.

AutoCAD maps of Raichur
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Management Action Plan

• Raichurs Solid Waste Management Action Plan
  (MAP) is critical to the long term sustainable
  SWM of the city. ESG insisted the MAP should be
  a public document and created with public input
  (via public hearings). However, prevailing
  administrative attitudes have continued to keep
  this under wraps.

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Community Educational Material Nammuru
Chendadooru

• ESG completed the docu-film Nammuru Chendadooru
  in collaboration with Grassroots Media Pvt. Ltd.
  by November 2004. Based on the Kinnari Jogi
  style of expression, this 18 minute film involves
  a story that weaves mythology, traditional
  beliefs, song and theatre in entertaining the
  audience and communicating the need for
  segregating waste at source as the basis of
  sustainable SWM strategy.

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Community Educational Material Picture Book

• The Sutradhara in Nammuru Chendadooru is the
  motif for a variety of communication material
  planned to be utilised in engaging with the wide
  public. This process has been initiated by
  developing a picture based story book based on
  the film.

Excerpt from Picture book
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Community Educational Material Posters

• A series of 13 posters developed to communicate
  various aspects of sustainable SWM in Raichur.
• Raichur City A brief of the city with basic
  details like population, waste generation per
  ward etc
• Raichur Waste Generation Physical
  characteristics of municipal solid waste
• How waste should be managed Waste segregation
  and details of the collection infrastructure that
  would be deployed in slum and non-slum
  households.
• Composting Explains the methods of composting
  and motivates one to practice backyard composting
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle The 3Rs that can solve
  the waste problem
• Pourakarmikas Helps to develop a humane
  approach towards the plight of Pourakarmikas
• Management Action Plan (MAP) - Gives the entire
  information of MAP in a package. The proposed
  infrastructure details, proposed waste management
  activities, human resources that would be
  deployed are some of its important contents

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Training of Pourakarmikas

• ESG held training sessions for Pourakarmikas from
  all sanitary circles on
• Hygiene and Health
• Proper Waste Management Techniques
• The aim was to
• Empower pourakarmikas to educate public on waste
  segregation.
• Train pourakarmikas to be waste managers and not
  mere waste collectors.

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The big challenge

• We could never achieve our aim of training SHGs
  as CMC failed to organise them even to the end of
  the project period.

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Campaign Activities

• Azad Nagar Campaign
• Municipality was mobilised to clean up dumping
  points.
• Residents were informed about the benefits of
  waste segregation.
• Women were encouraged to form a waste management
  committee.

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Campaign Activities

• Student Awareness Campaigns
• Workshops on composting for children
• Sensitized children on waste segregation through
  theatre workshops
• Films on Solid Waste Management were screened
• Signature Campaign to voice the demands of the
  citizens for the development of the city
• AIR programme on activities of ESG in Raichur
• Public screening of Films on Environmental issues
  followed by discussions

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Collecting used syringes for a living