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Sanitation

Sustainability B Class Municipality: Government of Gujarat has classified ‘Nagar Palika’ based on pop-
euse of scrap materials reduces amount of waste material, which is an indication ulation, viz., A Class - >1,00,000, B Class - 50,000 to 1,00,000, C Class - 25,000 to 50,000,
Rtowards environmental sustainability. Since the cost involved in this process is only D Class - 15,000 to 25,000
1/10th of the cost for providing new dustbins, savings of expenses indicate financial
sustainability too.
Petlad Municipality (PM)
Transferability
Petlad Municipality, with population of about 55 thousand is the a municipality located
All other ULBs may adopt this policy to implement the solid waste collection infrastructure in Petlad sub district of Anand district in the state Gujarat. Total geographical area of
at low cost.
Petlad municipality is 9 sq km and population density of the city is 6021 persons per sq
Media references km. Petlad is the sub district head quarter, district head quarter Anand is situated 24 km

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loO_RmPeU4Y&t=19s away, and Gandhinagar, the state head quarter, is situated 124 km away Petlad. Yearly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loO_RmPeU4Y&t=19s average rainfall of the city is 750 mm. Maximum temperature here reaches up to 43.5°C
and minimum temperature goes down to 15.5°C.
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