16th Esri India User Conference 2015 “Himatnagar Solid Waste Management” Nisha Pramanik 1, Abhishek Pindiwala2 1 P.G. Student (Geomatics), CEPT University Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus University Road, Navrangpura 2 P.G. Student (Geomatics), CEPT University Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus University Road, Navrangpura Abstract: About the Author: A city never grows in a single day but eventually sprawls day by day, as the decade’s passes by population increases rapidly. Urban Sprawling have had impact on the citizen, issues are directly proportional to population. More the population more will be the waste generation. As per the government norms, per person 0.3 kg waste generated per day. Managing such large quantity Ms. Nisha Pramanik every day is hectic issue. A 2nd year Post graduate student of Mtech Geomatics The case study of Himmatnagar city, Gujarat has in Center for Environmental Planning and Technology been included for the paper. Himmatnagar has a (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad. population of 81,176 coming under the category ‘B’ With a B.E (Civil) degree from Shantilal shah of municipality. A Municipality is usually an urban Engineering College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat. administrative division having corporate status and Interested in GIS and its application and using it for usually powers of self-government. “Municipal GIS”, better future. a GIS software which can be used to retrieve and utitlity information of municipality, keeping a wide E mail ID:
[email protected] variety of data and record and helps to take Contact: +91 7622035813 decision. This paper deals with the integration of solid waste management with the help of geographical information system (GIS) and developing a smart way to handle all the waste by route planning of the waste collection van across the city and depositing in a new landfill site.