MINUTES OF TASK FORCE MEETING ON 15.4.2004 at Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal
1, Issue G.O. to all ULBs to follow the Supreme Court Committee Report in order to comply with the MSW Rules 2000. Send 2 Hindi translations of Report (available from Mrs Patel) to each ULB, one for Chief Officer and Chairman/councilors and one for Health Officer and his subordinates.
2, Issue G.O. that with Uttaranchal positioning itself as an organic farming State, only composting will be considered for waste-processing. No Municipal-Waste-To-Energy projects are to be entertained.
3, Issue a G.O. to forthwith discontinue the use of lime in Urban Local Bodies, as it disrupts the composting process and is bad for soils. For disinfection, composting biocultures or herbal / ayurvedic sanitizers shall replace lime. Use of lime-lines for “VIP Rangoli” shall be abolished.
4, Issue a G.O. requiring municipal roads dept, PWD, Border Roads within the State to incorporate “Waste-Polymer-Modified-Bitumen Roads” in all their tender specifications, to utilize shredded carrybags and other polymers including multifilms in roads to the extent available within the State, at the rate of 8% by weight of bitumen (40 km such roads in Bangalore, 1000 km in Tamil Nadu by year end). Tender rates may be amended accordingly to allow for a procurement cost of Rs 10 per kg of shredded plastic as in T.N.
5, Direct all ULBs NOT TO MIX kooda and malba (including drain silt and road dust). The latter shall be collected separately in afternoon shifts, weekly or as necessary. (This is because inerts constitute 40% by weight of total waste when collected together, ruining composting operations and adding to landfilling and disposal costs).
6, Require all large institutional campuses (educational, health, hospitality, conference, shadi-mahal etc) in all ULBs over 50,000 population to manage their own wastes on-site by ____
7, Issue a G.O. or Amendment to Municipal Rules for a “Mera Aangan Saaf” policy for all ground-floor occupiers, beginning with commercial areas and establishments, requiring each ground-floor occupier to maintain the cleanliness of their frontage including pavement, open drain, road shoulder etc upto the road centre when both sides of road are occupied, or upto opposite side of road where vacant.
8, Require all new constructions over --- sft to incorporate on-site composting arrangements in their plans for approval (as done in Pune). Also include onsite waste-water management and rainwater harvesting for constructions over ---- sft.
9, Actively operationalise the Mohalla Samiti concept which has already been approved by G.O. Set time-frames for compliance: 10% of city area by ____, 25% by ____, 50% by ___, 100% by ___ . Weekly statements of compliance to be submitted to CS through ___
10, Prepare and implement an SWM Model for Hill Towns of Gopeshwar-Chamoli and Naini Tal with CPCB assistance. Project proposal to be submitted by mid-May 2004 with inputs of best practices from other cities.
11, G.O. banning use of stone-coal by Govt, public enterprises and by private users within Corporation limits, to minimize air pollution and reduce solid wastes.
DESIRABLE OBJECTIVES TO BE OPERATIONALISED:
12, Waste shold not touch road surface. Aim for binless cities (Nasik model, Premnagar slum in Mumbai)
13, G.O. or Amendment to Mpl Act requiring ULB to collect only Wet Waste door-to-door on daily basis. Dry waste collection to be mobilized through NGOs, SHGs, cooperatives of rag-pickers, Kabadiwalas, recyclers, & thru schools (Mussoorie model).
14, Inoculate waste to sanitise it at earliest possible point: household/hotel, handcart, tractor/lorry.
15, ULBs to promote and encourage decentralized composting in order to minimize transportation cost and avoid potential landfilling expense. To be done at individual household level (e.g. Narlikar’s village), apartment (Pune model), moholla level (ALMs Mumbai) or in parks (very many cities), on unfenced vacant plots through Urban Agriculture models, Dhaka pay-for-group-compost model in slums, Coimbatore (direct manuring of plantations/forest).
16, Guaranteed buyback of all composted waste before buying any additional manure or red earth for horticulture.
17, Spell out and operationalise Micro-management policies for:
Dairy wastes
Malba and unused construction materials on roads
Market wastes
Food vending carts and hawkers
18, Flood control policy:
Nala Baghs
Remove encroachments upon storm drains
19, Revegetate mining overburden through stabilizing urban waste of nearest ULB (Dhanbad-Jharia model).
20, Reward best performers.