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Social Concern
Swachh Bharat Mission

UNIQUE SUCCESS STORIES…

‘Plastic-free’ Gandhinagar Raipur: ‘Shame by Fame’

Gandhinagar, the capital city of Gujarat, aims 'Afsaro Ki Gashti' and 'Shame By Fame' are two
to be a zero landfill city. Under the “Plastic-Free novel ideas, easily implementable, sustainable
Gandhinagar Initiative”, Gandhinagar Municipal and scalable. 'Afsaro Ki Gashti' is an innovative
Corporation (GMC) has taken several measures cleanliness drive which supports the behaviour
Gandhi Nagar to reduce, reuse, recycle Raipur changes of the citizens
and safely dispose of the of Raipur, the capital
plastic waste. It collects of Chhattisgarh.
segregated dry and wet In this effort, all
waste from door-to-door higher officers are
collection activity. A supposed to visit
plethora of this is plastic in the morning by
waste. The GMC has also initiated the process 6 AM and verify whether sanitation activities
of creating a sustainable ecosystem wherein are performed satisfactorily or not. ‘Shame By
informal waste pickers and the company can Fame’ is an innovation to monitor offenders
collaborate to efficiently manage the plastic waste who create nuisance through a monitoring
in the city. system called “DAKSHA”.

Greater Chennai: From waste to compost

The Greater Chennai Corporation has evolved a unique idea
Greater Chennai of converting waste into compost. It has Resource Recovery

Centers (RRC) and Micro Compost Centers (MCC) in all
15 zones across Chennai. The RRCs perform segregation
of waste collected from the households and markets of
respective zones. There are around ten to fifteen categories of
segregation depending upon waste produced in these zones.
The MCCs produce compost from the wet waste.

Speaking about the genesis of what has become Prime Minister’s dream of a Swachh India was
the world’s largest urban sanitation survey, to be realised within the timeframe of five years.
Hardeep Puri said, “When the Swachh Bharat A framework was, therefore, needed to bring
Mission – Urban (SBM- U) was launched in 2014, it about rigour in the progress in monitoring and a
was with the objective of making urban India 100 spirit of healthy competition amongst states and
per cent ODF along with 100 per cent scientific cities to improve their performance in key
solid waste management. With no concept of cleanliness parameters. It was this underlying
ODF in urban areas and solid waste processing thought that led to the conceptualization
standing at a mere 18 per cent, it was clear that and subsequent implementation of Swachh
an accelerated approach was necessary if the Survekshan." n

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