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| Back | AMC - Solid Waste Management Project | |||||||
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Project cost: Rs.100 Millions Project period: 2 years |
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| Introducing concept of handle waste once only | ||||||||||||||
| All open temporary garbage storage sites to be eliminated and replaced by containerized system | ||||||||||||||
| Community based primary collection system to cover all households, shops and establishments to ensure zero garbage on the road | ||||||||||||||
| All slums to be covered under the new system | ||||||||||||||
| Bio-organic fertilizer (soil enriched) to be produced from waste as a mode of final disposal of waste | ||||||||||||||
| All hospitals, nursing homes waste to be incinerated/ disinfected before disposal | ||||||||||||||
| Waste Generation | ||||||||||||||
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1200 tons waste is generated per day The garbage is removed on the same day The garbage is disposed off at the landfill site at Pirana Hospital waste is being incinerated |
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| Collection | ||||||||||||||
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AMC has employed more than 6500 sweepers to cover
an area of 190.84 sq. kms. The AMC has recently increased its temporary waste storage pits from 462 to 708 Open waste storage sites are being phased out and replaced by large garbage containers (4.5 to 10 M size). |
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| Community Based Primary Collection System | ||||||||||||||
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Segregation of recyclable waste at source. One community bin per 15-20 household for storage of organic waste. Waste from such 80 to 100 bins to be cleared by a tricycle and taken to the nearest collection point by a contractor. Tricycle are also used for collection of waste from Safai Kamdar in their beats and taken to large bins. One tricycle covers 10 beats. 1200 tricycle are being contracted. Special emphasis is put on covering the 41% of City population living in slums. |
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| Community Participation | ||||||||||||||
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Pilot project of source segregation of recyclable and organic
waste was implemented in 131 pockets in Ambawadi area with the
support of Clean Ahmedabad Abhiyan taken up by Prathana
Construction, SBI Staff Association &
SEWA (N.G.O.). SEWA organized women ragpickers to collect the segregated waste. AMC has arranged to collect organic waste from the community bins on day to day basis. SEWA has trained 4000 ragpickers to collect waste from the housing societies. |
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| Transportation | ||||||||||||||
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Ahmedabad is one of the first cities in India having a full mechanized system of transporting solid waste. No manual loading of waste. 126 Vehicles and machinery's are deployed for transportation. DISPOSAL OF WASTE - Mostly the Municipal waste is disposed of at the landfill / site at Pirana. |
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Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
Solid Waste Management |
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| No. of sweepers engaged in collection, transportation and disposal of waste and annual expenditure of same. | ||||||||||||||
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Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Solid Waste Management |
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Details of expenditure incurred by the Ahmedabad Municipal corporation after the solid Waste Management during the last 5 years. Rs. in Millions |
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| Description | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | 1996-97 |
| Revenue Account | |||||
| Establishment, Equipment and Maintenance | 164.8 | 188.8 | 222.4 | 273.4 | 304.0 |
| Capital Account | |||||
| Vehicles & Machinery | 4.1 | 4.8 | 2.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 |
| Equipments | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.2 |
| Total | 168.4 | 194.3 | 227.9 | 290.2 | 321.4 |
| Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Solid Waste Management | ||||||||
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| Equipment and vehicles deployed on day to day basis for the transportation of waste from the communal waste storage sites. | ||||||||
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(JULY - 1997) Total No of Vehicles deployed - 129 Total waste disposal - per day - 1277 Tones. |
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| S.R. No. | Name of vehicles | No.of Vehicles exiting | First | Second | Third | Total | Disposal of Waste Tones. | Note |
| 1 | JCB Machines | 13 | 5 | 5 | - | 10 | 674 |
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| 2 | Tipper Trucks | 93 | 20 | 20 | - | 40 | - | Open sites |
| 3 | Front and loader | 10 | 3 | 2 | - | 5 | 110 | Waste removed |
| 4 | Tipper Trucks | 93 | 6 | 4 | - | 10 | - |
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| 5 | 10m3 Roll on Roll off Machines | - | 16 | 9 | 5 | 22 | 296 | Hydraulic vehicles for |
| 6 | 4.5 m3 Dumper placer unit | - | 10 | strong>10 | - | 20 | 176 | lifting the container |
| 7 | Refuse collector | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 16 | Closed body |
| 8 | Compactor Machine | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | -5 | vehicles |
| 9 | Mobile Collection | |||||||
| Refuse Rickshow | 11 | 9 | - | - | 9 | - | Mobile collection | |
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2 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | Vehicles to be emptied in | |
| Community Bin van | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 10 c.m.t. contains | |
| 10 | Wheel dozer | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | Leveling and |
| 11 | Bull dozer | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | Compacting the waste |
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Total |
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71 |
53 |
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129 |
1277 |
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