Community-based action planning for effective solid waste management - Kuppam

Field Note 25355 1998 Community-based Action Planning for UNDP- Effective Solid Waste Management World Bank Water and 9 1UP [m Sanitation Andhra Pradesh Program- South Asia In Kuppam Town the ~ ideas and enthusiasm of & , ,. field level sanitaryd levl r workers and local tapped to plan for a viable town-wide system of waste segregation, re-use, re-sale and disposal with full 2A co-operation of users, 4f.~. who are willing to pay for improved services." - KUPPAM FACTS Population - 25,000 Area - 1832sq.kms. r his field note documents the process and findings of a No.sehofds 5,000 | situational analysis-undertaken ,in Kuppam and the consequent. Households - 5,000 Idv Average development of an action plan for improving the solid waste family size 5 disposal syster,n with active participation of the local,residents. Average family income - 2600/-p.m. Kuppam is locpted in Chittoor district in th ayalseema region of Agency Andhra Pradesh. It is'closer to the cities of Bangalore (1 30- kms) responsible and Chennai (250. kms) than it is to its state capital Hyoerclad for solid - KuppamTown (700 kms). Dynamic political leadership coupled -with- strong Waste Panchayat management (KTP)ncht administrative support has drawn-enormous technical and,financial, (SWM) resources,to:,-the town,jleadingj,to multi'sectoral interventions in No. of Sanitary Kuppam. Due-to rapid urbanization the town. is in. transitioh 'and Workers - 23 Kuppam manifests rural' culture -with 'urban'.infrastructure.  Kuppam is undergoing a major face-lift Program-South Asia (WSP-SA). WSP-SA and several infrastructure development through consultancy services of the projects are underway. These include Asian Centre for Organization Research construction of roads, drainage, market and Development (ACORD) developed complex, hospital, a marriage hall etc. a feasible plan to improve the system of In addition, Kuppam Town Panchoyat solid waste management with the (KTP) has received a loan from HUDCO participation of the local residents. for the purchase of hardware to improve Kuppam Town Panchoyat is currently solid waste disposal. In order to avoid responsible for all the operations being swamped by its own garbage, like .'regarding solid waste disposal in addition thousands of other small towns in India, to other services. KTP is in the process of KTP and the district administration felt the upgrading its status to that of a munici- need for technical assistance to develop polity. However this shift, in the absence an efficient system of solid waste disposal. of personnel with appropriate technical For this, they approached the UNDP- capacity, will not benefit the local World Bank-Water and Sanitation residents. f' n-depth qualitative and quantitative halls (2)) provided information on waste data obtained (from house- composition and the prevailing methods , holds (406), shops (62), restaurants of waste storage and disposal. (1 5), religious institutions (1 5), educational institutions (l4), hospital/clinics(5), cinema Not everyone in Kuppom maintains holds, 1 9% shops, 20% religious institutions, 50% educational institutions & restaurants * c > ; 111 and 75% hospitals & clinics use bins. The K1_ X r 0 disposal of household waste is primarily .i*, -; ; .-;; s 2the responsibility of women. The residents dispose of their waste 1 to 5 times a day. ~~ ~ On an average, waste from iO.i 5 : E ; households is collected in small heaps on the streets. The -twenty cylindrical bins ~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~(without base) provided by KTP v %T$, > remain overfilled, and uncleaned. The s;S -t-t7,, v ^ *; e>9+44s>sB?><X?^ waste collection is erratic and one-third r_ ''2#tffl'> 'Wof the garage never gets lifted, attrocting 2-r .- , 3-~ rodents and animals and results in clogged drains., KTP owns four bullock carts (of which three are non-functional) and one tiller for waste collection. In X * ,-Daddition, it also hires a tractor once or twice a month, which can ply only on the  @