The hilly town of Gangtok in Sikkim is facing the problem of disposing of its solid waste and developing a landfill site.
The hilly town of Gangtok in Sikkim is facing the problem of disposing of its solid waste and developing a landfill site. Puri in Orissa doesn't have a large population but this land of Lord Jagannath handles as many as many 5 lakh floating population comprising mainly tourists. This makes it difficult for the civic body to manage sanitation and cleanliness in the town of two lakh people with the available manpower.
These are some of the problems facing the Jawaharlal Nehru National Renewal Mission (JnNURM) cities in different parts of India. These difficulties were discussed at a Peer Experience and Reflective Learning (PEARL) cities workshop at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University on Thursday.
The workshop was inaugurated by CEPT director RN Vakil and city mayor Asit Vora by displaying a variety of works being done in Ahmedabad. Elected representatives from cities like Shimla, Puri, Bhubaneswar, Gangtok, Indore and Jaipur are attending the workshop.
The problems were shared by elected wing representatives -- mayors and councilors - attending the workshop that is being organised by CEPT, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and Ministry of Urban Development. In a session chaired by NIUA's Prof VK Dhar, the mayor of Indore in Madhya Pradesh expressed his concern over escalating cost of projects during the period of their sanctioning and final completion of the project.
"A major problem faced by cities now is reduction in the level of ground water and challenges to provide water to denizens. A remedy to this lies in activating use of or developing new lakes," said Krishna Murai Moghe, mayor of Indore.
Elected representatives highlighted solid waste management problems faced by tourist cities like Gangtok and Puri. The mayor of Gangtok said managing solid waste is a huge problem. "During the tourist season in particular, solid waste goes up by 50 tonnes a day. Earlier, waste was disposed of in water streams but in monsoon it spreads everywhere. We don't have space for landfill site or a factory for recycling of plastic. So what do we do?" he asked.
Prof Dhar said interaction between cities and discussion of problems will help find solutions and also formation of new JNNURM schemes in future.
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