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City Development Plan for Agra City in the state of Uttar Pradesh under <strong>JNNURM</strong><br />

Bio-medical waste<br />

There are about 127 private hospitals and about 101 government hospitals and medical<br />

offices in the city. The waste generated from the hospitals is about 9.4MT per day, which<br />

constitutes about 1.50 per cent of the total waste generated in the city. The collection,<br />

transportation and disposal of the hospital waste is taken care by the Dutta Enterprises.<br />

About 75-80 per cent of the hospitals are registered with Dutta Enterprises for collection and<br />

disposal of the waste. The vehicles of Dutta Enterprises collect the waste from these<br />

hospitals and dispose the waste in scientific manner.<br />

6.4.4 Composition of Solid Waste<br />

The waste produced from households, shops and commercial establishments are composed<br />

of food and other discarded waste materials such as paper, plastic, glass, metal, rags,<br />

packaging materials. The waste is found to be rich in organic matter and contains about 49<br />

per cent organic content which is reasonably high as compared to other cities of India.<br />

6.4.5 Storage and Collection of Waste<br />

The system of storage at source does not exist<br />

in the city. The households, shops do not store<br />

the waste at source nor do they segregate the<br />

waste as recyclable and non-recyclable waste.<br />

Most of the waste is thrown on the streets,<br />

treating streets as receptacle of waste. This has<br />

led to an ugly and unhygienic atmosphere of the<br />

city. Thus there is a need to educate people to<br />

change their habit so as to store waste at<br />

source, dispose off the wastes as per the<br />

directions of the Nagar Nigam.<br />

Almost 75-80 per cent of the hospitals<br />

segregate the waste while the waste from rest of<br />

the hospitals gets mixed with the Nagar Nigam waste. There are a number of notices issued<br />

by the Agra Nagar Nigam, Agra Development Authority and District Collector to these<br />

hospitals regarding the segregation and safe disposal of the hospital waste. ANN is setting<br />

up a common facility for treatment of bio-medical waste from hospitals and medical<br />

institutions in the city.<br />

a) Primary Collection of Waste<br />

The primary collection of waste refers to house to house collection of waste or collection of<br />

wastes in the community waste bins either by the resident themselves or by the sanitary<br />

workers. There is no organized arrangement for house-to-house collection of waste in almost<br />

whole city except for some parts in the city. Community bins are also not available at<br />

convenient locations for depositing the waste. The waste from households, restaurants,<br />

shops is being deposited on the streets or thrown into the nallahs, open drains, open spaces<br />

etc. The waste is collected through the street sweeping. It was also observed that the<br />

condition around the bins is unhygienic and unaesthetic. The waste from the Petha industry<br />

areas like Noorganj is also not collected on daily basis with the result, the waste attracts flies,<br />

mosquitoes and strays too.<br />

As per National Solid Waste Association of India, 2000 households are covered in the doorto-door<br />

collection of waste and the segregation of waste is starting in Ram Nagar and Surya<br />

-45-<br />

MDP Consultants in association with Allianz Securities Ltd<br />

Temporary Storage<br />

Point<br />

Waste thrown in the nallah near Ram Lila<br />

ground

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