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CAG report blames 95 local bodies
CAG report blames 95 local bodies.Almost all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs, barring Greater Hyderabad and three other municipalities) threw the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW Management and Handling) rules 2000 to the winds.
Municipal Solid Waste rules flouted
Hyderabad: Almost all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs, barring Greater Hyderabad and three other municipalities) threw the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW Management and Handling) rules 2000 to the winds. Even as the Central Act made it mandatory 15 years ago, the ULBs have not established MSW processing and disposal facility resulting in piling up of 8,200 MT ( Million Tonnes) of waste in the open area every day in united Andhra Pradesh.
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The CAG report for the year ended March 2014 said that only four (one municipal corporation and three municipalities) out of 99 ULBs running, the waste treatment facility and none of them have scientific landfill facilities. As per the rules, every municipal authority was responsible for the implementation of the provision of these rules and for any infrastructure development for collection, storage, segregations, transportation and processing and disposal of the MSW within its territory. The state Pollution Board was responsible for monitoring implementation of these rules.
The report said the local bodies neither obtained authorisation from the Board to set up the waste management plants nor set up them resulting only 23 per cent of the total 47,858 MTs of waste was processed and 8 per cent of the wastes was segregated into biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes in the last four years. Though final disposal of MSW needs to be done through landfills, such disposal was nil during 2009-12 and only 750 MTs was only done in 2012-13. The remaining waste was dumped in open yards.
With the non establishment of the treatment plants, the CAG estimated that a total of 8216 MT of untreated MSW was being dumped in the open every day and it accumulated to 29.99 lakh MT of waste piled up every year, causing environmental degradation and health hazards.The CAG pointed out that the Board also failed to impress up the municipalities to comply with MSW rules also did not analyse the reasons for non- compliance and failed to take necessary remedial measures.
