achieving swachh bharat through better governed municipal corporations

Achieving Swachh Bharat through better governed Municipal Corporations

Rishi AggarwalResearch Fellow

Observer Research Foundation Mumbai

4th International Conference on Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Processing Technology for Developing Nations

18-19th February, 2016

India overview

• We will soon have 68 Million plus cities• High volume of waste generated daily• ?? Number of unscientific dumping grounds

This is the situation today

What happened to Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules of 2000?

15 years – What have we done?

MSW 2000 MSW 2015

Role of Municipal Corporations

• The final authority on safeguarding public health

• Implement laws of the land with regards public health, environment and sanitation

• Provide execution to national level missions• Create an enabling ecosystem for multiple

stakeholders – business and non-business

Governance parameters

• Transparent and accountable. • Share annual plans, achievements and failures

honestly.• Be open to criticism and • Not be seen as biased towards one approach

over the other. Only creates conflict and delays.

Governance parameters

• How easy is it to business with municipal corporations?

• An honest assessment of the experience with PPPs in the past decade.

• Need for performance measurement of ULBs on implementation of MSW 2000

• Let us stop Technical Assistance for Handbooks and Conferences and start demanding performance from Urban Departments and Municipal Corporations

Requirement of MSW 2000

• Are ULBs encouraging and enabling reduction of waste at source? Reducing waste reaching garbage dumps?Reduce Reuse Recycle

• Is segregation at source being enforced?

Bio-methanation is also Waste to Energy

Let Municipal Corporations create a harmonious foundation for multiple stakeholders to happily contribute to Swachh Bharat Mission

Thank you

@rishi75 Email: rishiagg@gmail.com