Solid and Liquid Resource Management (SLRM) Centre at Amritsar Cantonment Board

Budget : 38.5 Lakh

Innovation Type (Process/ Product): Process

About the Project:

The SLRM Centre is spread over an area of 2.4 hectares in Cantonment board. The implementation of the project is taken up by Swachh Mission co-operative society limited in 2016 with the technical support of India Green Service agency. This centre is efficiently managing the entire collection, transportation system and managing them with suitable techniques, such as composting, manually segregating the RDF fraction and converting the recyclable waste in to value-added products. Centre is preparing value-added products from recyclable products, such as cardboards, clothes, certain plastic materials etc. For instance, cotton towels are converted into beautiful flower pots. These products are displayed during certain occasions and sold to the public to earn funds for the SLRM centre. This SLRM Centre has been developed at a place, where there was slaughter house operating earlier. Army authorities were requested to allot the condemned building to cantonment board for SLRM centre. For this centre the agency have identified and integrated female waste pickers from all over the city and engaged them as key resource after imparting initial training on the SLRM. Currently 3 MT of waste per day is collected from 7 wards covering about 3400 households. It includes about 283 hectares of defence establishment as well. For this purpose, the centre has deployed 7 e-rickshaws and 18 hand carts. Collection of waste is done twice daily. Each e-rickshaw covers about 200 households within an area spanning over a radius of 2.5 km. User fees is being collected by the centre, broadly depending upon the waste generation. Residential households pay Rs. 70 per month, while commercial establishment pay Rs. 140 and Rs. 170 depending upon the generation. While bulk generators (including hotels, restaurants, schools etc.) pay Rs. 2100 per month. Waste comes segregated at the source, which is collected in partitioned vehicles. The dry waste undergoes washing treatment, is segregated further, packed and sold as RDF materials. The organic fraction, which is edible by animals is sent to the dairies or piggeries. After segregation for dairy and piggery usage, the remaining organic fraction is used for making compost. SLRM has achieved great success in segregating the waste in to fractions.

Sector : Solid Waste Management

Pilot City : Amritsar, Punjab

Ownership : Amritsar Municipal Corporation

Know More : mcasr@punjab.gov.in

Connect : mcasr@punjab.gov.in

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