A three-month certificate course on “Sanitation Value Chain in Urban Odisha” for TULIP interns commenced here on Wednesday. The first training module on Solid Waste Management (SWM) by the Odisha Water Academy in partnership with the Urban Management Centre (UMC) was inaugurated by H&UD Principal Secretary G Mathi Vathanan.
Vathanan emphasised on the role of trained youths to drive changes in converting waste into wealth. He said the programme aims to impart domain knowledge, practical experience in urban sanitation, which will improve their professional competence and employability.
This is the first batch of TULIP Interns who will be trained and mentored to be equipped with knowledge, tool kits and social skills to handle the nuances, issues and challenges in urban sanitation landscape. The programme will create a cadre of 500 trained sanitation professionals across 115 ULBs of the State who will work as sanitation experts to ensure effective management of solid and liquid wastes in urban areas.
A tripartite MoU between H&UD Department, Odisha Water Academy and Urban Management Centre was also signed which would provide technical support for designing the pedagogy, training modules and capacity building of TULIP interns. After successfully on boarding Women SHGs, Transgenders in water and sanitation, building the capacities of young fresh graduates/ postgraduates is an attempt to mainstream into urban sanitation.