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Environment Engineer |
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Health Inspector |
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Sanitary Daffedar |
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Poura Karmikas |
Solid Waste Management Implementation in Puttur Town Municipal Council (current status)
Solid waste management organization Chart:
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Environment Engineer |
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Health Inspector |
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Sanitary Daffedar |
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Poura Karmikas |
Structure of solid waste management
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Primary Transportation |
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Secondary Transportation |
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Ultimate Disposal |
Currently Primary collection is practiced in one
command area out of 6 command areas, with approximately 1154 houses and two Stree
Shakthi groups have been identified and they started this task on 16th Aug 2006.
Solid waste statistics
1) Total amount of waste generated within TMC area = 16 Tons per day on an average.
2) About 95% of total generated is cleared frequently i.e approx. 15.2 Tons per day.
3) Amount of waste that is un lifted is about 0.8-1 Tons per day.
Work Schedule
The garbage collection work begins at 7 am in the morning and continues at 11 o'clock. Again it starts at 2 pm in the afternoon and ends at 5 Pm in the evening. All the works are carried out under the close supervision of Sanitary Daffedar and Health Inspector. Environmental Engineer is the over all in charge of the activities, who in turn reports to the Chief Officer.
Garbage Collection mechanism
1) 90 nos. of 660 lit fiber bins are kept at specified places within TMC limits.
2) 45 nos. of cement bins are also kept for collecting garbage.
3) Two bin lifting trucks (Side packer) (Supplied under KUDCEM project) are provided and in 3 trips these vehicles covers all 90 fiber bins daily.
4) One tractor with trailer vehicle is used for collecting garbage from cement bins and out of 45 cement bins 30 bins are cleared on daily basis, 15 are cleared twice a day or thrice a day depending on their filling capacity.
5) One tata lorry is also used for garbage collection but not frequently as it is used for task works also.
Disposal of collected garbage :
One sanitary land fill site is constructed under ADB project ( KUDCEMP) at Nekkila Bannur 6 Km away from municipality office.
The land fill covers 7.15 acres of land. Right now unseggregated waste is dumped in sanitary land fill.
Disposal mechanism :
The unseggregated waste is dumped in sanitary land fill and weekly once or biweekly once soil is spread over the waste and it is compacted by allowing the heavy weight side pack vehicles to move on the soil cowered waste.
For the purpose of spreading the waste and putting soil over the waste a tractor with front end loader vehicle is provided by KUD.
The front end Loader vehicle is changed as Light
weight JCB and is operating from 17th July 2006.
Land Fill Sites: As on December 2005
Land Fill Site : As on 8-Aug-2006
D.K. District Deputy Commissioner inspecting the land fill site. Puttur TMC and KUDCEMP officials were also present.
Land Fill Site : As on 20-Sep-2007
Collection, treatment and disposal of hospital wastes :
Currently all the hospital wastes are collected by a private operator appointed by Indian Medical Association Puttur branch, and 0.8 acres of land is provided for the disposal of hospital wastes near Mottethadka Puttur.
Municipality is not at all handling the hospital wastes.
Toilet pit cleaning :
For the purpose of toilet pit cleaning a 4000 liter capacity desludging equipment (cess tank) is provided to Puttur Municipality and at a reasonable rate as decided by the council (as mentioned in the following table), the pit cleaning service is provided.
| Service Seekers | Rate per Load |
| Medium and rich class people | 1000 Rs |
| BPL families and Charitable Organizations | 500 Rs |
| Trade Organizations including hospitals, KSRTC public toilets | 2000 Rs |
This desludging equipment contains a vacuum pump which sucks the slurried toilet waste at about - 400 atm pressure and at a specified location it is disposed.
IEC
Under KUDCEMP project, IEC activity was carried out with the help of an NGO SKDRDP ( Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Program) and they conducted the operation for about 2 years and their contract ended in May 31 2006.
Right now as per the Guidelines given by Directorate of Municipal Administration, IEC activity is conducted with the help of SJSRY
Contact persons for SWM work:
1) Chief Officer - Ph : 08251-230251
2) Environment Engineer - Ph : 08251-230251 ext :29
3) Health Inspector - Ph : 08251-230251 ext :29
4) Sanitary Daffedar - Ph :08251-230251 ext :32
5) Bin Lifting truck drivers:
B K Vasantha Mob: 9448548444
O.S Thimmappa Mob: 9448888287
6) Cess tank driver - K. Ashoka Mob: 9448503078
7) Tractor trailer driver Angara mob : 9449084087
