The Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) officials interacted with the experts on Solid Waste Management Rule 2016. A capacity building training programme was organised on Thursday at Brilliant Convention Centre, Indore wherein the experts talked about the waste management rules 2016.
The event began with the lighting of the lamp by Chairperson Ajay Singh Naruka. Notably, the training programme was organised by IMC in association with the Ministry of Urban Development and Central Pollution Control Board. During the daylong capacity building training programme the experts talked about various topics.
The experts talked on Solid Waste Management Rule 2016, Bio Medical Waste Management Rule 2016, E-waste Management 2016, Hazardous and other Waste Rule 2016, Plastic Waste Management Rule 2016 and Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rule 2016. After the detailing of the topics, an interaction session between the experts and IMC officials was also held.
While addressing the programme Ajay Singh said that Indore city has given a perfect result of the Swacch Bharat Mission. It is to be noted that under Swachch Bharat Mission Indore has been ranked first and the cleanest city of the country.
Singh further said that there is a huge contribution of the IMC officials, citizens and public representatives in making Indore as the cleanest city of the county. Now the biggest challenge lies is to maintain the position for which the capacity building training prgramme was held.
In the first session expert KD Bharadwaj talk about Solid Waste Management Rule 2016. He said that a vision document of next 20 years should be prepared and public awareness about the solid waste management should be increades.
Expert Ajay Jain spoke on Plastic Waste Management Rule 2016. He talked about the steps to be taken b Urban Development Department for the decantation of plastic waste. He also gave details of the rules made by the law for the producer and vendors of plastic.
Expert Shridhar Gopal talked about the Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rule 2016. He highlighted on the reuse of the construction waste. Expert Sandeep Narulkar said that a lot of advantages can be taken from E-waste as he talked about the E-waste Management 2016.
Expert Subrat Paani said that all the organizations should keep this in mind that bio medical waste should not be mixed with other waste as he talked about the Bio Medical Waste Management Rule 2016. The sessions ended with the expert talk by VR Patel as he spoke about Hazardous and other Waste Rule 2016.
The IMC officials asked their queries on various issues related to the topic and experts answered their queries in detail. On the occasion mayor-in-council members and additional commissioner Devendra Singh and other officials were present.