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Solid Waste Management—A Look at Some Technologies of Department of Atomic Energy

Solid Waste Management—A Look at Some Technologies of Department of Atomic Energy Perspective Environment and Urbanization AsiA Solid Waste Management— 7(1) 149–152 © 2016 National institute A Look at Some Technologies of of Urban Affairs (NiUA) sAGE Publications Department of Atomic Energy sagepub.in/home.nav DOi: 10.1177/0975425316629833 http://eua.sagepub.com Nisha Singh Solid waste management is an important component under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) that is being implemented by the Ministry of Urban Development at an estimated cost of `620,090 million, out of which `368,280 million is to be spent on solid waste management alone. Under SBM, Central Government’s assistance for municipal solid waste management projects is `240 per capita for present population for each city/town (i.e., for a city with 0.1 million population, maximum central grant/Viability Gap Funding (VGF) admissible is `24 million). Also, states have to provide at least `80 per capita as their contribution towards the projects. In addition to the above, the cost of Detailed Project Report (DPR) preparation is also admis- sible for each city/town at the rate of `12 per capita for the present population. One of the critical factors in waste management is selection of technology for processing of waste. Unless we process waste properly, the issue of having mountains of waste in unsanitary landfills would remain unanswered. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Urbanization ASIA SAGE

Solid Waste Management—A Look at Some Technologies of Department of Atomic Energy

Singh, Nisha
Environment and Urbanization ASIA , Volume 7 (1): 4 – Mar 1, 2016
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Perspective Environment and Urbanization AsiA Solid Waste Management— 7(1) 149–152 © 2016 National institute A Look at Some Technologies of of Urban Affairs (NiUA) sAGE Publications Department of Atomic Energy sagepub.in/home.nav DOi: 10.1177/0975425316629833 http://eua.sagepub.com Nisha Singh Solid waste management is an important component under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) that is being implemented by the Ministry of Urban Development at an estimated cost of `620,090 million, out of which `368,280 million is to be spent on solid waste management alone. Under SBM, Central Government’s assistance for municipal solid waste management projects is `240 per capita for present population for each city/town (i.e., for a city with 0.1 million population, maximum central grant/Viability Gap Funding (VGF) admissible is `24 million). Also, states have to provide at least `80 per capita as their contribution towards the projects. In addition to the above, the cost of Detailed Project Report (DPR) preparation is also admis- sible for each city/town at the rate of `12 per capita for the present population. One of the critical factors in waste management is selection of technology for processing of waste. Unless we process waste properly, the issue of having mountains of waste in unsanitary landfills would remain unanswered.

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Published: Mar 1, 2016

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