DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 30: The government of Nagaland has entered into a partnership with a leading environment management service provider to undertake an “integrated solid waste management, production of bio-fuels with organic farming, skill development and waste and drinking water management” project at Dimapur.
The technology used by Newwaves Bio Fuels India Ltd, the implementing agency of said project, bears the approval of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, Make in India.
At the launch of the programme on Wednesday here, the managing director of Newwaves Bio Fuels India Ltd., Krishna Prasanth informed that Nagaland was the first state in the country to implement this municipal solid waste project under the Make in India programme.
Newwaves, it was informed would start building the facility from December 15 next at the existing DMC garbage dumping site inside Burma Camp, Dimapur.
Newwaves offer a number of services under various categories such as Waste Management – hazardous, municipal, biomedical & e-waste; Recycling – waste water, paper, plastic and integrated waste.
According to Prasanth, the company’s technology “has been transferred from (the) UK and (the) USA” and “approved under Make in India”. Company representatives said the project has “merits in terms of socio-economic gains, public health benefit through skill development and environment improvement as well as employment opportunities” for the people of Nagaland.
The outputs from the solid waste would be used in organic farming, they said. A promise more was to turn the state of Nagaland into “an organic farming destination”.
According to the parliamentary secretary for Municipal Affairs, R Tohanba the “ambitious project” would be the solution to “all problem of solid waste management in Dimapur”.
Dimapur, just like any other townships of India, was facing acute solid waste management problems due to rapid urbanisation and uncontrolled growth rate of population, he said.
“The management of municipal solid waste need to be viewed with integrated approach considering all parts of it from collection to transportation, disposal and final landfills of the residual wastes.”
Officials from the state’s department of Municipal Affairs–including Commissioner and Secretary Menukhol John and the administrator of Dimapur Municipal Council Atokhe Aye–also spoke at the launch of the project.
Waste management is the precise name for the collection, transportation, disposal or recycling and monitoring of waste. This term is assigned to the material, waste material that is produced through human being activity. This material is managed to avoid its adverse effect over human health and environment.
