Sanitation
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Soil Bio-Technology for sewage treatment /effluent treatment
- Phytorid technology for wastewater treatment
- Biodigestor for human waste disposal
- CAMUS SBT technology
- Ecotechnology – Soil Scape filtration
- Electrochemical arsenic remediation
- OS smart process for sewage treatment
- Bacteria led bio-remediation / Bio-Augmentation, Reed Beds, Anerobic Digestors for lake cleaning and other purposes
- Plastic Honeycomb
- DRDO Biodigestor
- Annual Targets under Swachh Bharat Mission
There are criticisms over the viability of this project that demands participation from each and every Indian. It is notable that Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is not a new programme to better the country’s sanitary facilities. Launched in 1986 as the Central Rural Sanitation Programme, the scheme later became the Total Sanitation Campaign (1999) and Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan in 2012. Merely renaming or re-launching may not help achieve the Clean India mission. Having made new targets of making 25 lakhs toilets a year, it failed to recognise reasons behind non-working of the existing IHHT and community toilets that can be up to 40%. The mission fails to build a sustainable model, recognising cleaning as an industry.
Ranjith Annepu, Co-founder, be Waste Wise and a Solid Waste Consultant, said, “Sanitation requires consistent investment and public education efforts. The process of creating clean and liveable cities takes decades to achieve and therefore, it requires investments accordingly. Change in behaviour also takes decades and it generally happens with passing generations. Once efforts towards improving sanitation are started, the infrastructure and behaviour change have to both evolve together into a system which suits needs of cities.
While the new recognition for Sanitation is welcome, it cannot be achieved in four to five years. Therefore, the Government should look at this more holistically and I think it is doing that, at least from what people in the sanitation industry hear from the ministries.”
“CSR cash can help. But it has to be channelled in better ways. For example, instead of buying a bin for a neighbourhood, that cash can be used to afford a regular and well-run waste management service.”
Bruno Longo, Comlurb, Latin America, said that “Usually governments are slow to identify and solve such problems. This creates more problems. Further, if private players are pushed to the functional co-operation without being asked to participate actively at the planning stage, this is not the way a systematic plan works, so I can’t really consider any help here outside of governmental action.”
Besides what The New York Times observed, ‘Modi vows cleaner India, but no clear path to get there’, success story cannot be written alone, based on the gap between what we have achieved and what we had intended to. The starting point also, must be taken into account! In a short span of eight months, both Clean India and Make in India have got its fair success in bits and pieces. In Madhya Pradesh alone, “3,40,234 applications for the construction of Individual household toilets have been received so far, of which 2,71,000 sanctions were issued,” clarified Praveen.
We will have to wait to see what will be achieved by 2019, however it is important to keep the momentum on the right tracks.
The August issue of Clean India Journal will bring more insights to the story from industry perspective.
