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P.N. Patti Town Panchayat in Salem District

BEST PRACTICES IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

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Ariyappampalayam Town Panchayat in Erode District

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Thorapadi Town Panchayat in Cuddalore District

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Solavandan Town Panchayat in Madurai District

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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

PORUR MODEL ACCELERATED GROOM UP CAMPAIGN

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PORUR MODEL CAMPAIGN

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

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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - A CAMPAIGN MODE

Students our clean and green ambassadors in action to mend ways and sustain awareness....

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LOCAL BODY DAY - CAMPAIGN MODE APPROACH

The Fulcrum of awarness, re-enforce messages....

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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.

MY TOWN MY PRIDE

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CLEAN & GREEN TOWN CONCEPT

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BEST PRACTICES DOCUMENTS COMPILEDBY DISTRICTS AND TSUNAMI UNIT

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The UN proclaimed International decade “Water for Life 2005-2015” directly rein-forces and urges countries to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) under MDG 7, whichcalls for to ensure environmental sustainability. It is directly linked to drinking water andbasic sanitation and specially calls for to: “Halve by 2015, the proportion of people withoutsustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation”.

The UN General Assembly declared 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation to putthe spotlight on this issue, recognizing the impact of sanitation on public health, povertyreduction, economic and social development, and the environment. The goal is to raise aware-ness and to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target toreduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015.

(http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/)

o National Conservation Strategy & Policy Statement on Environment and Development, 1992o The Policy Statement for Abatement of Pollution 1992o National Environment Policy (NEP) 2006

National Environment Policy (NEP) 2006

o National Clean Development Mechanism Authority (NCDMA)o Scheme for Registration of Recyclers/Reprocessorso Promotion of Cleaner Technologies and Waste Minimization Circle

National Urban Sanitation Policy 2008

o New Delhi declarations of the Third South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN III)hosted by India during November 2008

o Policy note under Demand No:34 of Municipal and Water Supply departmento Announcements of the the Hon’ble Minister for Local Administration and Water Supplyo Hand Book on Solid Waste Management published by the Comissionerate of Town Panchayatso Waste Management Strategy and vision document of Town Panchayats

SANITATION DIGEST

Sanitation Connect - International Sanitation goals at a glance

Sanitation Links - National Policy Initiatives

Sanitation Reach - Initiatives of Government of Tamil Nadu

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The Government of India unveiled National Urban sanitation Policy during November 2008. 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 [2007-2012]. 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.

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The goals include awareness generation and behavioural change, elimination of open defecation, integrated city-widesanitation, 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 emphasisesbuilding capacities at the city level

The Government will help formulating and implementing a strategy on capacity building and training to supportstates 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 whichaims at carrying out ratings of cities on various parameters related to sanitation and award for excellence in perfor-mance.

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 amongothers.

A totally Sanitized Town Panchayat will be one that has achieved the outputs or milestones specified in the NationalUrban Sanitation policy, the salient features of which are as follows:

Towns must be open defecation freeMust eliminate the practice of manual scavenging and provide adequate personnel protection equipment thataddresses the safety of sanitation workers.Municipal wastewater and storm water drainage must be safely managedRecycle and reuse of treated wastewater for non potable applications should be implemented wherever possible.Solid Waste collected and disposed off fully and safelyServices to the Poor and Systems for Sustaining ResultsImproved Public Health Outcomes and Environmental standards

Concept of Totally Sanitised Towns

NATIONAL URBAN SANITATION POLICY

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.

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

SWM Enforcement Acts

1. Excellent Novel and Radical International (EXNORA), Chennai2. Hand in Hand (HiH), Chennai3. Indian National Trust for Art, Culture and Heritage (INTACH), Pondicherry4. Society for Community & Peoples Education (SCOPE) Trichy5. Eco Solutions of Mr. Paul Calvert, Mamallapuram / Thiruvananthapuram6. Eco Services Fundation, Pune7. Gramalaya, Trichy

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