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ural waste management and livelihood

for informal sector workers through enabling

successful source segregation of over 41

tonnes of waste per day and service to 58,000

houses. Its current focus is on 11 states to set

up community-owned waste management

systems in more than 91 villages.

e HCL Grant Project aims to

implement segregated waste management

systems in 140 Gram Panchayats (GPs)

in four districts of Karnataka by making

segregated waste collection and composting

of biodegradable waste at village level

through decentralization. It also aims at

aggregation of plastic waste at the taluk level

to increase recycling of plastic waste and

reduce pollution caused due to improper

waste disposal. It works towards dignified

livelihood generation by creating new

job opportunities where people work

with dignity and self-respect in clean and

hygienic environment. So far, Saahas has

facilitated segregated waste collection in

47 GPs out of the projected 49. Segregation

levels have reached about 22 per cent in the

households giving their waste. 43 GPs have

waste management units. e reach of the

Swachh Bharat Mission, Mahatma Gandhi

National Rural Employment Guarantee

Scheme (MGNREGS) and the National

Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) schemes

of the government in the project impact

areas have been extended. Innovative

ideas have been demonstrated, like the

establishment of a taluk-level Material

Recovery acility to manage plastic waste

successfully as long as villages in the taluk

practice source segregation and have good

collection and transportation systems. is

is the first demonstration, anywhere in India,

of the successful functioning of dry waste

aggregation centers as recommended in

Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) Phase II

guidelines.