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2017, 100.17 M.T per day of bio-compost is produced by Town Panchayats which makes
an earning of Rs.39.42 lakh per month. Through vermi composting, 16.21 M.T per day
compost is produced and through it Rs.10.29 lakh per month is earned by 188 Town
Panchayats. Town Panchayats have initiated efforts to recover the land from the landfill
sites through bio-mining food waste to energy. Bio gas generation has been implemented
in 5 Town Panchayats.

An effective Information Education Campaign (IEC) campaign led by the Panchayat leaders
in association with the Self Help Groups ( SHGs) brought in effective communication
amongst various stakeholders like the Residential Welfare Associations, Eco-clubs,
Educational Institutions etc., to bring in this change and gradual progress towards zero
Use of Bio-gas for cooking waste towns in Tamil Nadu.
the Directorate of Town Panchayats has implemented the MSW Rules 2016 in its towns
through four principles of ‘Reduce’, ‘Reuse’, ‘Recycle’ and ‘Recover’. It has been ensured that
for every 150 households, a pushcart is provided for 100% door to door primary collection
and further 10049 SHG members are involved in collection, segregation and processing of
solid waste. It has been ensured that door to door segregated collection from commercial
areas and bulk producers of organic waste is being taken in a separate trip to the Resource
Recovery Park (RRP) for processing and waste collected in containerized push-carts from
residential areas is being taken to the RRP without mixing, through secondary transport
vehicles. Bio-composting has been successfully done in 466 Town Panchayats. As on
Vermi composting- Madukkaral Town Panchayat
Year 2015-16

SAnitAtion tHrougH PuBLic PArticiPAtion in MiZorAM

by Directorate of urban Development & Poverty Alleviation, government of

Mizoram and young MiZo Association

irectorate of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation, Government of Mizoram and In this regard, YMA organized public awareness campaign in every branch in every locality.
DYoung Mizo Association (YMA) were awarded jointly in the category of ‘Sanitation’ for YMA in collaboration with the Government agencies/departments and local authority,
their initiatives in sanitation through public participation in mizoram. The main objectives organized public sanitation campaign in which free medical clinics were arranged.
of the program in terms of sanitation was to improve existing sanitation system of YMA branches maintained and preserved the village watershed/source by cleaning and
repairing, as a regular activity. Schools and other Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
individuals, particularly septic tank, soak pit and provide community toilets with best such as MHIP, MUP, and its partners in southern Mizoram i.e. MTP and CYLA also actively
technologies. The objective was also to provide assistance to State Government/Urban participated in the process. As a result of this initiative, mass communities were mobilized
Local Bodies in implementing sanitation regulations for sewerage improvement with best to have proper sanitation awareness and knowledge and some attitudinal changes have
practice. been observed among some communities.

Youth engaged in waste collection Cleaning programme conducted by locals

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