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FICCI conducted a survey on ‘scope of privatization of Municipal solid waste in India according to their survey.
- Solid waste management has been partly privatized in 23 out of the 25 cities surveyed. Cochin and Pune are the only two cities surveyed that have not privatized their SWM activities.
- 19 out of 25 cities surveyed have currently adopted the private contract (fee based services) model for SWM contracts.
- Waste collection (from door-to-door as well as street sweeping) and Transportation are the most privatized activities in the cities surveyed. Waste transportation (18 cities), door-to-door collection (17 cities) and street sweeping (17 cities) have been privatized in most of the cities surveyed.
- Composting (10 cities) is the most popular among the existing treatment options for municipal solid waste, followed by Vermicomposting (5 cities). Pelletisation (9 cities) and biomethanation (5 cities) have also been preferred as treatment options for future.
- All the cities surveyed still use open dumps as a disposal option for their.
- MS W. Cities such as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Pune and Surat have already installed secures landfills whereas others such as Cochin, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Delhi, Indore, Jaipur, Jabalpur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Chennai, Jamshedpur, Coimbatore, Rajkot, and Patna Have already initiated the process of establishing secured landfills.
- The primary bottlenecks indicated in the survey are resistance from the community for setting up solid waste treatment and/or disposal facilities (15 cities), lack of appropriate space for setting up SWM facility (11 cities), lack of funds (11 cities), and lack of technical know-how for carrying out SWM activities (11 cities).
- Cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Jaipur and Nagpur have the maximum number of activities privatized.
- Cities such as Coimbatore have evinced a possibility of privatizing all solid waste management activities in future.
- In cities like Pune (50%) and Cochin (86.42%), the collection efficiency is considerable although waste management has not been privatized in these cities. However, the figures also indicate that although the current models being followed by these cities are yielding results, there is still a scope for a rise in collection efficiency and hence privatization in waste collection in these cities.
- 17 out of 25 cities surveyed have introduced door-to-door collection. Cities such as Nagpur, Nasik, Surat and Hyderabad have door-to-door collection throughout the cities in all the zones/ wards. Nagpur, Nasik and Bangalore claim 100% collection efficiency in terms of the number of households from where waste is collected while Surat and Hyderabad have indicated an efficiency of 80% and 75% respectively.
- Of the cities surveyed, the Asansol Municipal Corporation allocates the highest percentage of its overall budget to SWM related activities (44.7%) followed by Agra (30.39%), Patna (29.36%) and Varanasi (27.8%).
- Delhi has the highest per capita expenditure on SWM (Rs 431) followed by Mumbai (Rs 428) and Jaipur (Rs 301). Cities such as Ahmedabad, Chennai, Ludhiana, Kolkata, Pune and Varanasi also have a relatively high per capita SWM expenditure (more than Rs 200).
- Manpower deployment for SWM is highest in Delhi (3.5 per 1000 population) and Mumbai (3.4 per 1000 population). Other cities surveyed such as Coimbatore, Madurai and Nasik also have a manpower deployment figure equal or above 3.0 per 1000 population.
- 15 of the cities surveyed have received or are in the process of receiving grants/ subsidies from Central Government, State Government or financial institutions like ADB, for handling part of their waste management expenses.
- 13 of the cities surveyed have indicated additional sources of collecting revenue for waste management. These sources include user fees, waste management tax, buy back arrangements from recycled waste etc.
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