Solid Waste Management
Solid Waste Management Implementation in Puttur Town Municipal Council (current status)
Solid waste management organization Chart:
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Chief Officer |
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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 Collection |
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Primary Transportation |
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Secondary collection |
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Secondary Transportation |
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Treatment |
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Ultimate Disposal |
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 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.
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.
Collection, treatment and disposal of hospital wastes :
Currently all the hospital wastes are collected by a private Ramaky Agency 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 | 1500 Rs |
| BPL families and Charitable Organizations | 600 Rs |
| Trade Organizations including hospitals, KSRTC public toilets(commercial) | 3000 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.
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
Managed by :Mr. Ramachandra Jr.HI, TMC Puttur Ph:08251-230251
