Mangalore, December 14: The Mangalore City Corporation has shared the Joint First Position of IconSWM 2011 excellence award with Mysore City Corporation.
The award was conferred during the second international conference on Solid Waste Management and Exhibition on Muncipal Services, Urban Development, Public Works and Clean Technology (Icon SWM 2011) held at Jadavpur University with the support of Govt of India and Govt of West Bengal recently.
Revealing this to media persons at his office on Wednesday, MCC Mayor Praveen Anchan said that the credit goes to the hard work of his team. “We will promise to keep the standards as good as it is now”, he said.
He said Mangalore City Corporation was selected by the assessors in Tier-2 selection process for its proactive actions on solid waste management and initiative in making the roads concrete.
The MCC has been able to install Bio Gas plant, compost plants and sanitary land fill sites with respect to solid waste management. In IconSWM 2009 Mangalore had bagged second position. Many Municipalities have been assessed. A team from Jadavpur University had visited Mangalore for three days and in the slab of 3,00,000 population three cities had got selected. About Rs 1 lakh crore has been spent on this initiative. The Bio-Methanation project has also been implemented by the City Corporation. MCC has been able to sell the compost as a fertiliser and its quality has been appreciated. There is 100% door to door collection of garbage and segregated waste is fed to the Bio- Methanation plant. The 'Nisargaruna' plant is operational since August 2011, he said.
He said that the infrastructure for composting plant and sanitary landfill has been developed along with KUDCEMP at a cost of Rs 6.48 crores and 9.39 crores with ADB loans. The Winrow composting and Vermi Composting plant is operational since 2008 and Landfill site since 2010.
In the future there will be stress on source segregation, hydraulically operated vehicles will be used for Primary and secondary transportation. GPS systems will be installed in secondary transportation vehicles and sweeping of streets will be mechanized, he added.
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