In continuation of the discussion in today's class on Urban Infrastructure, I wish to mention the National Sanitation Policy 2008.
The GoI announced the National Urban Sanitation Policy 2008 with the vision that “all Indian cities and towns become totally sanitized, healthy and liveable and ensure and sustain good public health and environmental outcomes for all their citizens with a special focus on hygienic and affordable sanitation facilities for the urban poor and women".
The institutional arrangements encourages the local urban bodies to come up with a City Sanitation Plan involving the multiple stakeholders of the city. The policy also envisages constitution of a City Sanitation Task Force, headed by the Mayor (does one exist?? :P) involving the key stakeholders including representatives from the civil societies. In addition, the policy also announced a National Award Scheme for Sanitation for Indian Cities with a proposed methodology on the rating and categorization of cities on 100 points scale based on their performance.
You can find a nice summary of the policy here.
You can also download the policy (PDF) here.
Harshavardhan R.
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Hi Harsh,
Yes - mayors do exist for many towns and cities. But they are mostly nominated and thus are nothing more than figureheads to be frank.
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With respect to sanitation, I would like to raise the issue of planning out the development of sewerage infrastructure. We had a site visit to the Nesapakkam Waste Water Treatment plant in Chennai where we saw nearly half of Chennai's wastewater being treated. The water when it was being discharged out of the plant after treatment, was perfectly clean, meeting the required standards for discharge into the Adayar river. However, this water is sent in an open channel and by the time it reaches the river, the slum dwellers (who reside along the river's path) directly add waste to this treated water, thereby rendering the whole process of treatment useless. This problem could be somewhat tackled by using closed pipelines to transport this water. Otherwise, we are just wasting large amount of resources, trying to clean up the shit and then dirtying it even before it reaches the river! Foreseeing issues such as this and planning the urban infrastructure development comprehensively is extremely important, given the kind of tight constraints with which we work in urban environments.
It is startling to find the planners couldn't foresee the risk in the story that Varun mentioned. The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan was launched a few years ago to build an array of public toilets in the cities, particularly aimed at the slum dwellers. Considering that the construction, maintenance and daily upkeep of this project would be cumbersome, the whole implentation part was given to the Municipalities. But as expected, these toilets were seldom used, at least from what I saw in Bangalore.
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