Rajya Sabha member Mahesh Poddar has expressed concern over the slackness being carried out in the matter of waste management and processing by various urban bodies of Jharkhand. Poddar raised the matter in Rajya Sabha and based on the reply received, he said that the situation of urban bodies of Jharkhand in the matter of waste management is dismal.
While answering Poddar's question, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Urban Development, Housing and Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri said that in Jharkhand a total of 2135 metric tonnes of waste is produced per day, out of which a total of 1281 metric i.e. 60 per cent waste per day is processed only. Poddar said that the reply he got in the House is based on the information provided by the Urban Development Department of the state government and it may be different from reality. The situation in Goa, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh etc. is much better.
Poddar said that this is the situation when under the Solid Waste Management that is Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2016, all the statutory towns / cities of the country have been made compulsory to dispose of their solid waste in a scientific manner.
Under SWM Rules 2016, manure and bio-methanation methods are to be used for wet waste. Material recovery facilities for dry waste.
Refuse Dried Fuel (RDF) plants and waste-to-energy manufacturing plants are to be used.
The insulation method is to be used for processing for domestic hazards waste. But this system is not visible in any urban body of Jharkhand. As far as the Ranchi Municipal Corporation is concerned, there has not been any provision to store dry, wet and domestic hazards waste separately.
There is no shortage of money for waste management, Government of India provides adequate financial support. Under the Swachh Bharat Mission Urban (SBM-U), Central Assistance / Grant-in-aid is provided to the States / UTs up to 35% of the approved SWM project cost. So far, out of the allocation of Rs 7365.82 crore under SWM component, Rs 5109.82 crore has been released to the States / UTs.