Solid and liquid waste management in urban areas is an important agenda for the govt: Parameswaran Iyer, CEO, NITI Aayog
Dec 08, 2022
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NEW DELHI, 08 December 2022: Mr Parameswaran Iyer,
CEO, NITI Aayog today said that solid and liquid waste
management continues to be an important agenda for the government, particularly
in the urban area. "It will be important to work with all stakeholders in the
urban area including the private sector. We, at NITI Aayog, are working to take
this forward in partnership with all stakeholders," he added.
Addressing the day-2 of the 6th edition of
ISC-FICCI Sanitation Awards and India Sanitation Conclave' Mr Iyer stated, "Behavioral change is at the heart of all the programs including Swachh Bharat
Mission, Jal Jeevan Mission, Conserve Water, etc. towards sanitation and
managing solid and liquid waste management. We also have set up a Behavior
Insights Unit in the Aayog which focuses on behavioral change and tries to mainstream
into all government programs," he added.
He also stated that various state governments are
playing an important role in solid and liquid waste management including
Odisha, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, etc. "This is an
agenda which needs to be promoted very aggressively and we, at NITI Aayog, are
working with the state governments along with the Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs to take the agenda of wastewater treatment forward," added Mr Iyer.
"Increasingly there is a realization that we need to
have more and more decentralized options in municipal wastewater management. We
have big wastewater treatment plants, high technology and energy intensive
sequential batch reactors, etc. but now we have to look at a more decentralized
model and they both need to go together," he added.
Mr Iyer also urged the India
Sanitation Coalition to collaborate with NITI Aayog and state governments as
part of NITI Aayog's outreach to states. We have started the State Support
Mission where we are focusing on providing technical assistance to state
governments to evaluate the demands of the state as they are working towards
attaining an inclusive high growth trajectory. "There is a huge trend towards
urbanization, and it is going to be the key. By 2047, more than 50 per cent of
the country will be living in urban areas. If we don't have basic services in
urban and peri-urban areas, then it is going to be a big challenge. Taking
solid and liquid waste management forward, both the state governments and urban
local bodies will play a critical role in this," he added.
Speaking on the role of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in
waste management, Mr Iyer stated that many states have taken the SHG
movement in a very big way. "There is a clear role for SHGs in multiple
development areas including sanitation and solid and liquid waste management," he added.
Ms Vini Mahajan, Secretary, Department of Drinking
Water & Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti said that
there is a massive effort in the country to identify single pit toilets across
the country which needs improvement, and the state and administration are
playing a leading role in this. "We must extract biogas and bio manure from
organic waste," she added and urged the citizens to use organic waste
appropriately.
Plastic waste management, she added, is an integral
part of SBMG Phase-2 and we are encouraging panchayats to spread awareness in
order to ensure that the available plastic must really be put in the value
chain. "Today, segregation at source is also getting addressed in rural India," said Ms Mahajan.
Speaking on the Light House Initiative (LHI), Ms
Mahajan said that we want to ensure segregation at the household level. We
urge corporates to bring cost-effective, and innovative technologies for making
LHI scalable and replicable, she emphasized.
Ms Naina Lal Kidwai, Chair India Sanitation Coalition and
Ms Natasha Patel, CEO India Sanitation Coalition were also present at the
event.
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