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All
urban local bodies come under the purview of the Municipal
Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000.
Responsibility
of Municipalities
Every municipality is responsible to provide facilities for collection,
storage, segregation, transportation, processing and disposal of solid
wastes. They are also required to obtain Authorisation of the Board
for operating these facilities. The Application
for Authorisation is available at all offices
of the Board, free of cost, or can be downloaded from this web site.
Responsibility
of State Government
The
Department of Urban Development in the State has overall responsibility
for enforcement of these rules in metropolitan cities. The District
Collectors have the over all responsibility to enforce the rules in
their jurisdiction.
Responsibility
of the Board
On the urban local bodies and operators applying for Authorisation for
handling/processing/disposing solid wastes, the Board is to issue/refuse
Authorisation. The Board is
to monitor compliance with the conditions of the Authorisation
and to take appropriate follow up action.
Implementation
of the Rules
1. All the 58 urban local bodies in the State have been apprised of
the Rules. They have been instructed to apply for Authorisation. A seminar
was organised in association with Local Administration (Urban Development)
Department for the Chairpersons and Secretaries of Corporations and
Municipalities of the State.
2.
All the Development Authorities in the State were addressed to identify
and hand over landfill sites to the urban local bodies. Where there
is no Development Authority the urban local body has been asked to identify
the landfill site.
3.
The Board is proposing to create a date bank exclusively on technologies
for collection, storage, segregation, transportation, processing and
disposal of municipal solid waste. The assistance of the Central Pollution
Control Board has been sought in the matter.
4.
The Board will be conducting workshops and seminars on the various aspects
of and the latest techniques in collection and disposal of solid wastes
for municipal staff involved in garbage disposal.
5.
The urban local bodies in the state have been asked to modify all existing
open garbage dumps into sanitary landfills.
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