Sustainable Solid Waste Management With Special Focus on waste treatment and processing to Strengthen Implementation of SBM 2.0 : CSE
Apply by 20th Jun 24 / Venu: Rajasthan / Dates: June 25th – 28th 2024
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. 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. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications.
The flagship Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) 2.0, with its focus on solid waste management, is being seen as a potential game-changer for India. The mission agenda talks about making India “garbage-free”, with key components like remediation of legacy waste and building infrastructure for treatment, processing, recovery, and recycling of municipal solid waste with a goal to divert 80 per cent of the waste from reaching the landfill by 2026.
How much of that is really happening? The Swachh Survekshan (SS) annual assessment complements SBM by providing much-needed information to gauge the situation and identify cities that require urgent attention. According to SS 2023 results, the national average of waste processing is less than 40 per cent.
Capacity building of city governments, regulators, state urban development authorities, academia, private sector, civil society, start-ups, researchers, consultants and individual practitioners is critical to collectively achieve the mammoth target. The magnitude of the mission creates space for every stakeholder to build an ecosystem for turning waste management services into business models for economic and environmental sustainability.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE),which supports the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India to strengthen implementation of SBM 2.0, has designed a four-day tailor-made residential training programme focusing on waste treatment and processing. The programme will address the critical gaps in the waste management value chain, waste treatment and processing of various waste streams to divert the waste reaching landfills.The training is designed to equip urban local bodies with the nuances to effectively plan and implement a sustainable solid waste management ecosystem reinforced with appropriate waste treatment and processing infrastructure leveraging the additional central assistance under SBM 2.0. The training also envisions improved SS ranking for the relatively underperforming ULBs,subject to implementation of the solutions offered.
Course Fees
Rs 28000 for Indian participants
US $ 400 for foreign participants
Free Registration for Government Officials
* Cost of travel to Delhi and Back for the nominated officials to be borne by the nominating Government Authority
50% Discountfor NGOs, Academic Institutions, Students, Farmers
25% Discount for Industry Representatives, Consultants, Other Professionals
PARTICIPANTS WILL BE AWARDED A CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION UPON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE PROGRAMME
For more details please contact:
Course Coordinator
Minakshi Solanki
SeniorResearch Associate
Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy Unit
Centre for Science and Environment
Email: minakshi.solanki@cseindia.org
Mobile: +91 7827392845 |
Kuldeep Choudhary
Programme Officer
Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy Unit
Centre for Science and Environment
Email:kuldeep.choudhary@cseindia.org
Mobile: +91 8377030507
