The Smart City Bhubaneswar added another feather to its success cap as it became the first city in the country to receive the ISO 9001:2015 certification for effective Faecal Sludge & Septage Management (FSSM) services.
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said the vision for FSSM in Bhubaneswar is to make the city totally sanitised, healthy and liveable and tp ensure sustenance of good sanitation habits together with faecal sludge and septage management. The key objective of the urban FSSM Policy is to implement FSSM services such that safe and sustainable sanitation in each and every household, street, town and city.The State Government has taken steps to implement septage treatment plant in order to treat and thereafter safely dispose or reuse the faecal waste. This is being covered under the AMRUT scheme. The treatment plant has capacity to handle faecal waste generated for next seven years.
For safe disposal and treatment of faecal sludge, the city has an efficient 75 KLD Septage Treatment Plant which has maintained the consistency of more than 100% utilisation for last one year.
The privately-operated cesspool vehicles which were earlier disposing the sludge on roadside drains and various water bodies are now coming to the Septage Treatment Plant for safe disposal of sludge.