Experts at the day-long ‘Capacity Building Programme on Waste Management Rules-2016’, organised by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation BMC), stressed separation at source for municipal solid waste in the city for cost-effective and meaningful use of the waste generated by households and other stakeholders.
The workshop, organised jointly by the BMC, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the National Productivity Council (NPC) on Wednesday
mainly discussed Solid Waste Management Rules, Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, e-waste (Management) Rules, Hazardous and other Wastes (Management and
Trans-boundary Movement) Rules, Plastic Waste Management Rules and Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules, 2016 and tried to create more awareness on the salient features and how to make them effectively implemented.
Speaking on the occasion, Tourism and Culture Minister Ashok Chandra Panda called for unanimity in selection of locations for sewerage
treatment plants and pumping stations so that the growing city would benefit and all the citizens can benefit from urbanisation and city’s growth.
He also spoke on more awareness on the e-waste management as the society is increasingly becoming dependant on the electronic gadgets.
MLAs Bijaya Kumar Mohanty and Priyadarshi Mishra also spoke about better citizen-centric implementation so that with collaborative efforts the civic bodies could implement the six Waste Management Rules, 2016.
Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena also spoke on better citizen partnered initiative so that with options like segregation at source, many things can be achieved including effective recycling and managing construction and building material wastes.
In the workshop, the Mayor of CMC, Cuttack, the Deputy Mayor of Brahmapur Municipal Corporation and their officials along with representatives from nine urban local bodies across the State where AMRUT projects are currently being implemented participated.
BMC Additional Commissioner Subham Saxena said, “The BMC has taken several steps such as online management of solid waste through vehicle tracking system, formation of special squad for C and D waste etc.
Steps are also being taken for initiating the proposed waste to energy plant at Bhuasuni.’’
It can also be mentioned here that for e-waste management BMC has tied up with IFC and the civic body will organise a workshop exclusively on e-waste management on January 12.
Among others, Member Secretary Odisha State Pollution Control Board Debidutta Biswal, Professor Sadhan Kumar Ghosh of Jadavpur University, experts Sanjay Singh, Biswajit Debnath and KK Sinha spoke.