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Sanitation

Year 2018-19

Door to Door coLLEction of SAnitAry nAPKinS AnD

DiAPErS by Petlad municipality, gujarat

Being sensitive to domestic biohazards, Petlad Municipality has taken the initiative to segregate sanitary napkins at source, collect and treat them separately. For this, Petlad Municipality has
introduced a special vehicle with required manpower for collecting sanitary napkins and diapers. Further, 10 incinerators have been purchased and installed at 10 various locations and some
sanitary pad dustbins have also been made out of waste scrap and placed in the public toilets. Digital platform is being used for collecting sanitary napkins and diapers.
Introduction
eing in different nature, domestic biohazard needs different kind of management than
Bthat of the other solid wastes and management of such hazards are very difficult. If
such type of waste is not disposed off scientifically, it becomes the cause of land pollution.
Moreover, this biohazard remains intact for 400 years in the land, and hence, it is to be
processed scientifically.
Petlad Municipality, with a population of about 55000 is the only municipality of Petlad
sub-district, Anand district in the state of Gujarat. It is the sub district head quarter and the
district head quarter Anand is located 24 km away from Petlad. It is a (B) class municipality,
founded by Koli Chief Patal Khant. Total geographical area of this municipality is 9.19 Sqkm,
housing 10,969 number of households with a total population of 55330 (population density
of 6021 persons per Sqkm) and a decadal population growth rate of 11.44%. There are 12
wards in the city, among which Petlad Ward (ward no 01) is the most populous ward with
a population of about 12000 and ward no 06 is the least populous ward with a population
of 1330. Self Help Group
Petlad is well known for its efficient citizen interface for public grievance redressal through
its Jan Suvidha Kendra (Citizen’s Centre). Almost 79% of all households in the city have Process
individual water supply connections and about 96% have access to toilets. Almost 82% of or the collection of solid waste, Petlad Municipality purchased seven rainbow colored
the households are also served by a door to door waste collection service. Fe-rickshaws. Among them, yellow colored rickshaw is provided for collection of sanitary
Background waste only. Petlad Municipality has purchased 10 incinerators and installed them at 10
various locations like railway station, bus station, schools, collages, shopping complexes,
enerally, people used to dump domestic biohazard waste with common household etc. Some sanitary pad dustbins out of waste scrape has also been made and placed in
Gwaste and it became very difficult to segregate this, as it requires different kind of public toilets. For collecting and disposing the sanitary pads & diapers, 2 SHGs and a team
treatment than of common solid waste. Thus, solid waste segregation became a prime of a man and a woman have been engaged.
requirement. In such a situation, Petlad Municipality decided to collect biohazard wastes
separately and dispose them scientifically.
Key dates
The project has been completed in the month of August of 2018.
Main focus

ith an aim to treat domestic biohazard waste separately, Petlad Municipality had
Wobjectives of segregation of domestic biohazard waste at source, and thus collects
for further disposal scientifically.
Mobilization of resource
inancial support of Rs. 4 Lakhs for the project was provided by Petlad Municipality.
FRegarding manpower, a team with a man and a woman has been appointed for collection
of domestic biohazard waste. As the project is women sensitive, female manpower has
been appointed for waste collection process. Two Self Help Groups (SHG) have also been
engaged in this activity. Yellow Colored e-rickshaw for collection of sanitary waste only and group appointed for collection

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