Extension Service Centre, SSW, Roshni Nilaya in Partnership with Ullal City Municipality
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Extension service Centre, SSW, Roshni Nilaya in partnership with Ullal City Municipality Block placement study project; 2017-18 ‘Good waste management practices in coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada, Kannur and Udupi’ Waste management model of MattanurCMC in Kannur district, Kerala 1. Why this case study The citizen’s apathy towards recycling waste at household and commercial establishment’s level was the challenge for the waste management system in Ullal CMC, a coastal city near to Mangalore which has been making a humble effort towards achieving goal of ‘Zero waste management’ by 2020. The gradual increase in the quantum of waste transported to the land fill site in Vamanjoor is alarming. How to sensitise the citizens to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle wastes and adopt a sustainable zero waste management practice was the major concern. The ‘Swatcha Bharath Mission’ programme has triggered many initiatives which lead to study some of the good initiatives by the Local self Governments in coastal towns. So, the Extension Service Centre of SSWRN in partnership with CMC Ullal initiated the study of good practices of sustainable waste management in coastal districts of Udupi, DK and Kannur districts. Hence, this study. Each of these good practices have been documented and analysed from the sustainability point of view. The key parameters taken to assess the sustainability of each of the good practices from the point of the political support, Social acceptability, economically viable and Environment friendly factors. 2. Background of Mattanur The area has a typical midland character of Kerala with undulating terrain mainly used for dry agriculture activities. The town is located at the foothills of the western shoulders of the western ghats. Thalasseri–Coorg road (SH30) passes through Mattanur Municipal Town. Mattanur is famous for its "Kavu" where ancient folk rituals called Theyyam are performed during the months of January to April. Another famous situated near Mattannur is "Mattannur Juma Masjid" this is one of the biggest & most famous Masjid in Kannur District. Mattanur is famous for its players of the ethnic drum called chenda. Mattanur Panchavadya 1 ‘Study of good waste management practices in coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada, Kannur and Udupi’–ESC SSWRN &Ullal CMC; 2017-18 Sangham, which is a troupe that plays another classical percussion ensemble called Panchavadyam, also hails from this place. 3. Profile of Mattanur City Municipal Council A Profile of LSG Mattanur , Kerala 1 Geography and location 11° 52' 34" and 11° 58' 51" North latitudes and 74° 32' 24" and 75° 37' 38" East longitudes 2 LSG Type City Municipal Council Wards 35 3 Population ( 2011 Census) 47,000 Growth rate 6.23 4 Projected Pop; 2018 60,000 House Holds 12,300 5 Male Female sex ratio 1028 6 Major communities (%) Hindus , Muslims and Christians 7 Literacy; M/F 82% ( 85% M & 79% F) 8 Density of Population 869 per sq km. 9 Area Sq 54.15km 10 Political stability CP I M ( last 25 years 4. Governance Scenario Mattanur municipality is being ruled by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) lead front from the time it was formed. CPIM have strong presence in the entire municipality and the surrounding villages also. Mattanur was a Municipal face from 1995 onwards; the first chairman Shri N. Mukundan Master leads Mattanur to a new way to modern time. Ms. Anitha Venu is the current chairman of the Municipal Council and she belongs to the Left party. There are 35 elected members in the council. All together there are 45 staffs in CMC of which 28 belong to Health and sanitation department (14 regular 14 substitutes working on daily wages). There are three Field level junior health functionaries monitoring the 35 wards. 5. Waste management scenario before Swatcha Bharath Mission (SBM) The waste management system was started in the year . Mattanur town like all cities had a very poor waste disposal history, being a town located in the route; SH30 in the Tallasherry-Coorg had perennial problem of waste disposal by tourists and people on transit as well as the Commercial establishments such as Hotels and marriage halls. Municipality had placed dust bins in which all sorts of waste were dumped as un-segregated wastes. Municipality, used to just dump them in its dumping yard at ‘Karithur parambu’ established way back in 1995. Interestingly, then municipality during that period had forethought the need for keeping this space exclusively for waste management activities and had passed a rule to restrict residential development within 750 mts around this dumping yard. 2 ‘Study of good waste management practices in coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada, Kannur and Udupi’–ESC SSWRN &Ullal CMC; 2017-18 B Sanitation details Status as on June 2018 1 IHHL:12,300 100% coverage 2 Public toilets : 2 One at Bus stand and Market; Both managed throughout sourced agencies 3 UGD coverage % All the HH and CE such as hotels and Hospitals etc., are using the sewage pit system. However, CMC is providing the tank collection trucks ( Bangalore model) Most of these CE manage sewage 4 Sewage Treatment Plants(STP) The Proposal under SBM is being proposed for state of the art STP Plant at the estimated cost of Rs. 3.00 Crore is in the pipe line 5 Total Waste disposed per day 30 TPD 6 Waste collected 6o% (18 TPD) 7 Waste processed per day 3 TPD 6. Practices of waste management at Household level The wastes management system followed in the Mattanur municipality at two levels. i.e., from House Hold (HH) level and from b) Town level. At HH level, out of the total 12,300 HH about 3000 have been covered under the concrete bin composte system for treating bio degradable waste at the source. The production of concrete bins is assigned to RAIDCO1 . KIAL under its CSR has granted Rs.1.35 Crore for the project to treat garbage at source and about 6,000 houses in the municipality would benefit from the project. Concrete ring compost, pipe compost, and biogas plants would be granted as part of the project,’2 It is estimated that the remaining concrete bins to 7000 HH will be provided with in 6 months period. All the bio degradable wastes at HH level are treated through the twin concrete bin system. These bins cost 2500/per unit but Municipality has subsidised them and are selling at Rs. 120/- per piece to the HH’s as user fee. The non-bio degradable wastes such as; plastics, bottles etc., are collected by the members of Haritha Karma Sena3 once in month and collect a user fee of Rs. 30/-per HH. Municipality also arranges to collect the Gujri items once in 6 months from HH. The collected materials are transported to the waste processing yard by the municipality truck. Secondly, about 350 bio gas plants are given to those households involved in dairying and Agriculture. The bio energy is used for cooking and the cow dung slurry is converted in to bio manure. Every ward has trained one of the HKS member as a green technician for bio gas units and they collect R.50/- towards user fee. 1 Regional Agro Industrial Development cooperative of Kerala 2 The Hindu Mattannur town on the verge of development FEBRUARY 29, 2016 00:00 IST 3 Haritha Karma Sena is a professional team consisting of Green Technicians and Green Supervisors mainly Kudumbashree Women who will be assigned with the responsibility of collection, transportation, processing, recycling / disposal, and management of waste materials in association with respective LSGs and Suchithwa Mission. 3 ‘Study of good waste management practices in coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada, Kannur and Udupi’–ESC SSWRN &Ullal CMC; 2017-18 7. Sustainability factors Secondly, the household level collection of dry waste items (3hours per day) of work and 10 days work fetches those volunteers an average monthly income of 12,000/- has an key sustainability factors such as; social acceptability and economic viability. HKS members are selected by the neighbourhood committee (NC) headed by the ward member. So every NC will have one HKS volunteer in charge of 20/30 HH and about 12/15 KHKS in each ward who will take care of the waste management of their respective NC and the ward in a decentralised manner. The role of HKS is very critical in both collection as well as creating mass awareness in their NC and their wards. Interaction with the HH members in Mattanur confirmed the high level of citizen awareness about what, why and how of waste and implications on health for violating the rules and practices. 8. Practices of waste management at Commercial establishment level Mattanur town has about 36 hotels, 6 hospitals and 1826 commercial establishments and it generates wastes up to 30 TPD. So, the average of 2KG PD of degradable wastes generated in Mattanur CMC area (includes HH and CE wastes). The town waste management system has a regular waste collection a) sweeper waste and b) Segregated waste from the commercial establishments (bio-degradable and non bio degradable waste). The market wastes are collected by the Kudumbashree groups4 daily. The town waste collection work starts at 7.00 am till 11 am (approximately 3/3.30hrs) and one member earn an average income of 7-12K per month. Interestingly, the CBO’s (KS) are authorised to collect the user fee by the Municipality at a variable rate depending on the quantity of waste disposed by the commercial units. The wet waste such as; flowers , vegitables, fruits and chicken collected amounts to 3TPD and it is transported to the processing site and processed in to composte in aerobic method by introducing decomposing agent (microbes) and converted in to manure using windrow screen method.