Panchayats focus of Haryana govt rural waste management plan

The Haryana government today said that gram panchayats will be roped in to implement a comprehensive programme of community-based solid waste management to achieve the goal of 'Nirmal Rural Haryana'.
Gram panchayats will now play a part in not only managing the waste generated in villages but also garbage lying on roadsides of national and state highways and main district thoroughfares passing through their areas, an official spokesman said here.
All deputy commissioners in the state have been directed to involve at least 25 gram panchayats in their districts to take part in the cleanliness scheme under the rural jobs scheme of MGNREGS.

Community-based solid waste management projects in such gram panchayats would be taken up under MGNREGS and the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan with funds to be also drawn from the panchayats and the Nirmal Gram Puraskar and Mukhyamantri Sanitation Incentive Puraskar Yojna schemes, he said.
As per the scheme, a total solid waste management system, based on door-to-door collection, transportation, segregation and processing would be set up in these villages, the spokesman said.
Committees under district PWD executive engineers, have been constituted in all districts to identify the sites on national and state highways and main district roads which have garbage gathering there.

Gram panchayats have been authorised to collect user charges from households, shops, commercial establishments and other institutions for collection of waste, the spokesman added.