11/06/2019
Indore is celebrating 3rd time winner event in Swacch Bharat Survey – also grabs the attention by cleaning the 100 Acre Garbage land !!
AT the Outskirts of Indore, roughly a 100-acre dumpsite was overflowing with all kinds of waste. And in this waste, most of the wastes were hazardous for environment and creating several health issues for nearby area.
Upon the disappointing results in the Swachh Surveykshan of 2014 by Government of India, the Citizens of Indore and, Authorities decided to fight the cause and, to join the hands.
And, with this will their hard work paid off as the city became the cleanest in India for the consecutive 3 years on the Swachha Bharat Survekshan.
But, After getting first rank in the survey, the dumpsite was still there in the same pitiful condition. And, the authorities at Indore Municipal Corporation was really slow in implementing any work pace at the site for bio-medical & other hazardous waste treatment.
Indore Municipal Corporation has started the reclamation project in 2016-17 and it outsourced the work to a contractor. But the outsourcing work pace was very slow and, very expensive. Due to this lackluster in the work, in May 2018 IMC has appointed a young IAS officer Mr. Asheesh Singh, who took this project with a different strategy with the aim to complete it in as much as shorter time and, with a very less possible cost.
He began with the idea of beautification of the site and, started bio-redemption of the present waste. He started segregation of the waste from the initial stage itself. Mr. Singh also appointed few more capable officers in this project and, instead of outsourcing the work, he decided to do it with own resources and, hired heavy machinery. Work was done in 2 shifts and, surprisingly, finished in six months. Moreover, the entire project cost IMC less than Rs 10 Crore.
Now IMC is disposing the garbage in an eco-friendly manner. The collected garbage sent for biomining process, where it was sent for recycling, recyclable polythene or plastic was sent to the cement plants and for road making. Recovered soil is used for refilling the same site where beautification of the area will be done. The recovered construction & related waste sent to the construction facility to produce the building materials. And, the Leftover was sent to a secured landfill.
