Implementation of Swachh Bharat in Mysore

Implementation of Swachh Bharat in Mysore

By - Dipyaman Choudhury

Submitted to: Business Law faculty SDMIMD

Contents1. Introduction...............................................................................................1

2. Mysore in Swacch Bharat rankings (Swachh Sarvekshan-2016).................2

3. Implementation of Swacch Bharat in Mysore............................................4

a) STORM WATER DRAIN (SWD).................................................................4

b) UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE (UGD).........................................................5

c) 3. WATER SUPPLY....................................................................................5

d) 4. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT.............................................................5

e) DOOR TO DOOR COLLECTION AND SEGREGATION AT SOURCE..............5

f) SECONDARY TRANSPORTATION:.............................................................6

g) CENTRALIZED COMPOST PLANT..............................................................6

h) ZERO WASTE MANAGEMENT UNITS.......................................................6

i) SANITARY LANDFILL................................................................................7

j) INFORMATION, EDUCATION & COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES...............7

k) CONTROL OF PLASTICS............................................................................7

l) GPS BASED FLEET MANAGEMENT...........................................................7

m) COMPLAINT REDRESSAL......................................................................8

n) RAPID ACTION FORCE (ABHAYA).............................................................8

4. Suggestions and Conclusions.....................................................................8

5. References:................................................................................................9

1. IntroductionSwachh Bharat campaign was started off as a national campaign by the Government of India

and was launched on 2nd October 2014, on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti to mark the vision of

Mahatma Gandhi for a clean India. The Clean India or the Swachh Bharat mission is the

world’s biggest ever cleanliness drive and three million government employees and school

and college students of India had participated in the opening event. It then structured out as

the drive taken ahead by the government to improve the cleanliness in the country starting

from the roads to streets to the entire infrastructure of the country. One of the ambitious

project of this mission is to build 12 crore toilets in rural India by October 2019. The total

cost estimated for the project is at 1.96 lakh crore.₹

Modi selected 9 public figures to propagate this campaign, namely Sachin Tendulkar,

Priyanka Chopra, Anil Ambani, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shashi Tharoor, Kapil Sharma,

Katrina Kaif, Virat Kohli and the team of the television series Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah

Chashmah. It also has https://swachhbharat.mygov.in/ website for the mission. One of the

important aspects of the online marketing of the event is the “Take a Pledge” initiative, which

is a pledge taken by an individual or a group for maintaining the clean India program. So far

the initiative has brought 2,326 schools and 15,12,572 students into the umbrella of societal

concerns.

On similar lines, the NDA government had brought in celebrities, media and other marketing

tools for marketing the same. The campaign kicked off on a positive note and seen huge

conversations on social media including that of the official twitter handle #swachhbharat. The

government on similar lines, levied a Swachh Bharat cess of 0.5% on all taxable services

since November 15 2015. The tax is however exempted for the services that are termed

exempted under the income tax. The earnings from the tax are invested in the Clean India

initiative by the government. Also, the Supreme Court has given the nod for up to 2% for the

initiative, but the government decided upon beginning the initiative at a humble 0.5%, adding

the net tax to 14.5% from its prior 14%.

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https://swachhbharat.mygov.in/

2. Mysore in Swachh Bharat rankings (Swachh Sarvekshan-2016)

The Swachh Bharat ranking, an initiative under the umbrella of Swachh Bharat or Clean

India, ranks cities based on a yearly basis upon their performances of the same. The results

are based on the marks scored in respects of the main components of Swachh Bharat Mission,

availability of infrastructure and service levels related to sanitation such as individual

household toilets, public and community toilets and collection, transportation and processing

of municipal solid waste. The metrics are further classified into Planning: Strategy for Open

Defecation Free town (ODF) and Integrated Solid Waste Management (SWM),

Communication: Information, Education and Behaviour Change Communication (IEBC)

activity, Waste Management: Door to door Collection, Sweeping, Collection &

Transportation, and Waste Management: Processing and Disposal, Sanitation: Public &

Community Toilet Provision, Sanitation: Individual Household Latrines.

Mysore in the latest release of rankings, tops the list of Swachh Sarvekshan-2016 measuring

73 cleanest Cities with over 10 lakh population were surveyed to check how clean or filthy

they were. The service levels are measured by the governments by the performances of the

cities based on the following programs. The service levels of the city Mysore held the section

rank of second, in this regard.


In the measure of an individual observer, the Mysore city ranks third in this section, they

consist of the quality and standards of various establishment and check for the samples of the

samples from each of the following components - Community Toilets, Public toilets,

Unplanned Colonies, Religious Places, Planned Colonies, Large Slums, Bulk Waste

Generators, Largest Railway Station in the city and the Largest Bus Depot in the city. The

results of which are measured and compared with the rest of the cities for the rankings. An

example of “Largest Bus Depot in the city” is shown below. The largest bus depot is the City

Bus Stand and it has been fairly positive results on the measurement scale.

Figure 1 Source: https://gramener.com/swachhbharat


https://gramener.com/swachhbharat

3. Implementation of Swachh Bharat in MysoreAccording to the 2011 census, the Mysore municipal corporation ULB had a total of 938386

households and 51 slums were reported as part of the census. The total population living in

the slums were 15669 and in the urban were 938386. According to its projection for the year

2019, when the total number of toilets to be installed is 12 lakh crore, the total population in

Mysore is estimated to reach 1090972 in the urban and 1243558 in the urban for the year

2019 and 2015 respectively.

To initiate the same, the costs of construction on new individual household latrines (IHL) in

the city was estimated to be around 2499.00 while for the achievement of target of full

sanitation by the year 2019 it is estimated that construction on new individual household

latrines (IHL) would cost around Rs.8712000 conversion of pit latrines into sanitary latrines

Rs.2388000 and solid waste management would be costing a figure of Rs.3000000

The implementation by the local body was first started in 2014 when MCC Commissioner

Dr. C.G. Betsurmath instructed the MCC health officials to work on few guidelines on

Wednesday October 22 2014. He directed them to identify locations for setting up Dry Waste

Collection Centres in 18 MCC Wards in the first phase to collect, segregate and transport dry

waste generated in city to be dumped at nine selected spots. Dr. Besturmath said that nearly

400 tonnes of waste was being generated in city daily out of which 338 tonnes were from

households, 20 tonnes from commercial establishments, 21 tonnes from hotels and

restaurants, six tonnes from choultries and community halls and 17 tonnes from street

sweeping. The leadership at the centre, percolating down to the state officials and finally to

the actual implementation of the plan was instrumental in success of this initiative in Mysore.

The MCC in collaboration with various private players at many levels has encouraged the

formation of the following cleanliness systems. Each of which has been instrumental in

improving the sanitary and cleanliness in the city of Mysore.

a) STORM WATER DRAIN (SWD)Mysore city is having twelve drainage catchments, out of which six are main catchments in

the city area, namely 1) Devayyanahundikere catchment (Lingambudhi kere) 2) Dalavoykere

catchment 3) Bannimantapa catchment /Devaraya canal catchment 4) Shettykere (Yennehole

kere) catchment 5) Hebbalkere catchment 6) Kemmayyanahundikere catchment. The


government has made substantial efforts in collaboration with the MCC to develop the

catchment and ensure regular maintenance of the same. The MCC also has taken up the work

of remodelling the two valleys Bannimantapa and Hebbal. The remodelling has helped the

city in manifold. It has helped in removal of flooding problems in low laying areas,

minimized mosquito menace, and reduced the operation and maintenance of the drain and

improved health and environmental conditions of the people residing adjacent to water ways.

b) UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE (UGD)The Mysore City Corporation has constructed three new facultative aerated lagoons type

sewage treatment plants adding to the existing list, for which 5 no’s of Jetting machines, 4

no’s of De-silting machines, 1 no of cesspool cleaner, 23 no’s of Roding machines and 23

no’s of TATA Ace vehicles (on hire basis) are deployed for maintenance of UGD system.

187 UGD helpers & 72 workers are engaged for this purpose.

c) 3. WATER SUPPLYRiver Cauvery and its tributary Kabini, are the main sources of water for the city. MCC has

taken up initiative to provide 24X7 quality water to all houses with sufficient pressure head

under JnNURM scheme under which 1.40 lakhs domestic, 7600 non-domestic and 3400

commercial connections are established in the city.

d) 4. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENTThe total solid waste generated in the city is around 402 TPD, out of which 60% is wet waste

and 40% dry waste, a management of which has been initiated by the MCC. To undertake the

same, the MCC according to Sri. M.C.Srinivasa, the Zonal Development Officer for MCC

has taken up the following initiatives

e) DOOR TO DOOR COLLECTION AND SEGREGATION AT SOURCE

Door to door collection and segregation at source where MCC is collecting the wet waste

every day and dry waste twice a week from each house. This has helped in reduction of the

lead time for the treatment plants to function, thereby helping the city ease on the amount of

dirt and dump left lying around unattended. The challenge in this regard has been to

successfully reach the corners of the city which poses a concern and health threats such as

that of malaria etc.


f) SECONDARY TRANSPORTATION: Secondary transportation is done by using dumper placers and the night sweeping is done by

seeping machines.

g) CENTRALIZED COMPOST PLANTA Centralized compost plant is operated and maintained by IL&FS on PPP basis with the

Municipal Corporation of Mysore. Essential bio-culture is being sprayed daily to the

incoming fresh garbage to avoid odour and a barricade of about 26 ft. height is erected

around the compost plant. The city also boasts of the 6700 saplings that are planted around

the entire sewage farm.

h) ZERO WASTE MANAGEMENT UNITSThe major development in recent times by the MCC is the making of 8 Zero Waste

Management units functional in which about 45-50 MT waste per day is processed. An

amount of Rs.26,014 is the total income generated which acts as revenue to the self-help

groups (SHGs) who are managing the ZWM Units. Garbage sorting and shredding machines

of 10TPD are installed to optimize the capacity of Zero Waste Management units.


i) SANITARY LANDFILLSanitary landfill site has been developed on PPP basis with the Mysore Municipal

Corporation. This one of a kind project has received several accolades by the government of

India.

j) INFORMATION, EDUCATION & COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIESMysore City Corporation carried out several wide spread awareness campaigns regarding

segregation at source (i.e. the households). Messages from distinguished persons like

Worshipful Mayor, Commissioner and other noted persons through radio, local TV Channels

and newspapers have been broadcast during official functions. Setup a common biogas plant

or for hotels, Mini solid waste treatment plants for multi-storeyed housing complexes, etc. are

already in plans by the existing board and can be seen into effect anytime now.

Another vital step taken by the organization is to penalize the citizens not abiding towards the

maintenance of cleanliness including source segregation, littering etc., this measure is a

welcome step taken by the MCC so as when the dumping can stop, the dirt will too.

k) CONTROL OF PLASTICSMysore City Corporation has led emphasis on making the city plastic free. In a landmark

decision, the Corporation banned plastic in its own office first. It was then banned at the

Chamundi Hills and Mysore Palace which see over 30 lakhs tourists every year. Frequent

raids are being conducted and plastic carry bags of less than 40 microns are confiscated from

commercial establishments.

l) GPS BASED FLEET MANAGEMENTA GPS integrated vehicle tracking system installed on a vehicle uses the GPS satellite signals

through triangulation to calculate its precise location on earth. This information is then

transmitted with the help of a GSM module to a centralized server with other vehicle


parameters. This helps in optimizing the process of implementation of the higher level

management.

m) COMPLAINT REDRESSALMysore City Corporation has established a round the clock control room in order to attend to

the grievances of the public. The personnel in the control room work 24x7 in three shift, so

that complaints are redressed immediately. The 24x7 control room is equipped with number

of computer systems, wireless base stations. All the officers, health Inspectors, sanitary

supervisors, UGD inspectors, environmental engineers, and civil engineers are provided with

hand held wireless devices. They communicate action taken to the control room instantly

over the wireless network. The officials of Mysore City Corporation are provided with sim

cards under common user group scheme for an efficient communication. The public can call

the control room over the phone and lodge their complaint or can lodge complaint in the web

site www.mysorecity.gov.in.

n) RAPID ACTION FORCE (ABHAYA)Mysore City Corporation has constituted a rapid action force, comprising of three teams

working in two shifts to act during emergency situations such as flooding in low laying areas,

tree fall, collapse of old structures etc. This came about in place as part of an initiative to

fasten the process of cleanliness and redress the grievances at the earliest in the city.

4. Suggestions and ConclusionsThe MCC has been awarded with various accolades for their continuous efforts for

excellence and effective implementation of Swachh Bharat mission. This has helped building

an interest in the common public regarding the issues of cleanliness in the city and outside.

The greatest challenge will however be of retaining the top spot without falling prey to

complacence. The challenge in the long run will be the same as now, which is to increase the

awareness among the general public about the happenings within the city. It is also crucial for

the citizen to play along in these efforts of the Municipal Corporation. The number of cases

of sanitation, cleanliness, etc. can only be reduced when the people of the city know whom to

report to in case of these troubles. The issues such as these has very well been taken care of

by the existing Municipal body and will likely be improved upon in days to come.


http://www.mysorecity.gov.in/

5. References:http://www.swachhbharaturban.gov.in/RPT_DashBoard.aspx

http://www.swachhbharaturban.gov.in/RPT_PlannedSanation.aspx

http://www.newskarnataka.com/mysore/city-cooperation-instigates-swachh-mysore

http://mysorecity.gov.in/node/232

http://www.mysorecity.mrc.gov.in/node/222

http://www.newskarnataka.com/mysore


https://swachhbharat.cloudapp.net/

https://gramener.com/swachhbharat/#?city=Mysuru

http://www.swachhbharaturban.gov.in/Circulars_Notifications.aspx?

id=5098d5b656fd24521ed41583d6002616

https://gramener.com/swachhbharat/


http://www.swachhbharaturban.gov.in/Circulars_Notifications.aspx?id=5098d5b656fd24521ed41583d6002616

http://www.swachhbharaturban.gov.in/Circulars_Notifications.aspx?id=5098d5b656fd24521ed41583d6002616

https://gramener.com/swachhbharat/#?city=Mysuru

https://swachhbharat.cloudapp.net/


http://www.newskarnataka.com/mysore

http://www.mysorecity.mrc.gov.in/node/222


http://www.newskarnataka.com/mysore/city-cooperation-instigates-swachh-mysore

http://www.swachhbharaturban.gov.in/RPT_PlannedSanation.aspx

http://www.swachhbharaturban.gov.in/RPT_DashBoard.aspx

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