Leading practices of operationalizing FSSM in Uttar Pradesh : CSE
Date & Time May 29, 2023 12:00 PM
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The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival.
The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities.
On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth.
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Description
Purpose and Aim – The webinar is aimed to present the experiences of Bijnor, Chunar, and Jhansi in streamlining the desludging services by mitigating the operational challenges faced for safe and sustainable septage management. Under the flagship programs of the government of India (AMRUT, SBM, NMCG) many FSTP/Co-treatment plants are being built and commissioned across India for safe management of faecal sludge and septage (FSS). The state of Uttar Pradesh has geared up to capture the issue of unsafely manged FSS by rolling out the construction of 62 FSTPs/Co-treatment project. 40 FSSM plants in UP are ready to treat septage and out that 35 projects have been inaugurated on 22 March, on the occasion of World Water Day, 2023 by AMRUT department in Uttar Pradesh. However, urban local bodies are facing challenges in operationalizing the FSSM services like streamlining desludging services, ensuring required quantity of septage available at the plant, setting-up regulations and monitoring protocols and community participation. This results into sub-optimal utilization of the infrastructure, in addition to the adverse impact on the environment. In the light of sustaining the treatment infrastructure constructed (or under construction) for FSS the Centre for Science and Environment in association with the Department of Urban Development Uttar Pradesh, is organizing a webinar on “Leading Practices of operationalizing FSSM in Uttar Pradesh”.
CSE in association with Department of Urban Development, Uttar Pradesh is organising a webinar on “Leading Practices of operationalizing FSSM in Uttar Pradesh”
CSE experts Harsh Yadava, Er.Manish Mishra, Subrata Chakraborty and Hari Prakash Haihyvanshi will be presenting experiences from Chunar, Bijnor and Jhansi in streamlining the desludging services by mitigating the operational challenges faced for safe and sustainable septage management.
