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Strategic Action Plan Report
Box 4.1: Highlights of some of the ISWM Workshops
The Integrated Solid Waste Management programme was launched through a Launch Workshop on
22 nd December, 2006 at Pune. This workshop was convened by Dr. Nitin Kareer, IAS, Municipal
Commissioner, Pune along with Dr. Dilip Boralkar, Member Secretary, MPCB. The workshop was also
attended by Mr Surya Chandak, Dy. Director, IETC-UNEP, Japan. The workshop focused on the
present situation in solid waste management in Pune city and the overview of the entire project. The
workshop was attended by around 47 delegates from several organizations, ranging from regulators,
administrators, technology providers to citizen activists.
In order to solicit the views of key stake-holders and experts a Working Group was formulated. The
first Working Group meeting was conducted on the 24 th January in order to discuss and develop a draft
Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives, Tactics, Strategies and Tools to guide the plan.
Following the WG meeting, a series of consultation workshops have been organized and proposed to
further attend to specific waste stream related issues. 2 one-day consultation workshops for generation
and decentralized options of MSW were organized on the 17 th and 24 th February. The details of the
proceedings of these meetings and the list of attendees have been compiled in a separate Report on
Consultation Workshops. In order to facilitate the consultation process a dedicated website
www.iswm.emcentre.com has been developed.
Box 4.2: Website on Integrated Solid Waste Management for Pune City
A website dedicated to ISWM plan for Pune city is launched to encourage the communication between
stakeholders, policy makers and the planners. This website has served as a common platform for people
to comment and provide suggestions in the planning process. The website is continuously updated to
inform about the upcoming events related to Solid waste management in the city of Pune.
This interactive site also holds about 42 publications in all which includes the reports, publications and
the presentations that were made during the Consultative Workshops. Opinion poll was one of the
features of the website, wherein various themes were put up for views. Some of the themes were The
other features include Quick Comments and photo gallery.
There are now about 92 members registered on the site who are actively involved in the discussions and
other activities on the website. The member composition consists of students, professionals, researchers,
NGO representatives, Industry people as well as Government officials
The strategic planning process emphasizes visioning to action process conducted through consultation
with stakeholders. Accordingly the report provides statement of Vision, Goals and Objectives that
provides a basis in the drawl of Action Plan.
A review of the solid waste management situation in Pune brings out the following features:
• The quantity of all types of solid waste is increasing continuously. With this trend the pressure on
Pune’s landfill is increasing
• Pune’s solid waste problem is multi-dimensional covering MSW, C&D Waste, E-Waste,
Industrial hazardous solid waste and biomedical waste. An integrated approach to solid waste is
very relevant
• Both decentralized and centralized approaches for waste management are relevant for Pune. An
optimal mix of these two approaches is needed with more emphasis on decentralized approach
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