GMC lacks efficient waste collection system: report

• The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) is expending about 60 to 70 per cent budget of Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) on the MSW collection system, but they don’t have an efficient collection system.
• The report said that due to lack of proper knowledge and infrastructure to collect and dispose waste, not only Guwahati, but every city in India, today faces the problem of managing solid waste.
• In order to overcome these difficulties and make the city sustainable, the Government of India has initiated the ‘Smart City’ programme throughout the country and Guwahati has been selected as one of them.
• Making the city smart is nothing but managing the problems present with the help of institutional, physical, social and economical infrastructure.
• The IIT Kharagpur, in its report advised that to achieve the goal, the Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) approach can be used in Guwahati

GMC:

• Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) is the urban local body responsible for governing, developing and managing Guwahati.
• It administers an area of 216.79 km² of Guwahati city. The entire GMC area is divided into 31 municipal wards and each municipal ward is further divided into 2, 3 or 4 Area Sabhas.
• Presently, there are 90 Area Sabhas. GMC works under Guwahati Development Department, Assam.

By: Ziyaur Rahman