A team from the Belagavi city Corporation has returned from a study tour of Indore—India’s cleanest city—bringing back ideas to transform waste management and urban sanitation in Belagavi. The team is now keen to implement Indore-style innovations, especially using the city’s Command & Control Center to monitor and manage waste disposal operations in real time.
Mayor Mangesh Pawar is expected to convene a meeting with the Health Department shortly, where detailed discussions and decisions will be taken. A proposal to utilize the Command & Control Center for waste management will soon be submitted to the Smart City Department. Since Smart City MD Shubha B. also serves as Municipal Commissioner, the proposal is likely to gain quick momentum.
Belagavi corporators first visited Indore in October, followed by the recent tour of officials from the municipal health department from November 16. The team inspected Indore’s sanitation operations, including waste segregation processes, construction debris recycling, CNG production from waste, and the integrated Command & Control Center that oversees citywide cleanliness systems.
Belagavi already has a Command & Control Center, and officials believe it can be effectively used to improve cleanliness across the city. Plans are also underway to establish a waste sorting center and initiate processing of construction material—areas where implementation has been pending.
Five solid waste management projects under the Smart City programme are expected to roll out soon and support the city’s cleanliness drive.
Very good development and I had asked my former colleague in Indore to meet the team and take the visiting delegates to the Industrial Haz waste disposal facility at Pithampur, ( had established in 2004-5, when I was in RAMKY. ( same co. in Turmuri)
I don’t know the status but will check.
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I request the concerned authorities to involve residents also for the whole process of garbage disposal. It will help and support the whole system.
I request the concerned authorities to involve residents also for the whole process of garbage disposal. It will help and support the whole system.
We waiting to see the whole transformation of the whole city.
Indore is an proved case where belgaum is work in progress ,,many good thing are done but we are not having proper grievance helpline /online grievance mechanism to address the grievances online of belgaum city corporation ,,its really shameful for an city with tag of smart city when u dont have an basic grievance mechanism to address the grievance
Belgaum will become like indore soon.
The case of Belgaum is typical
Most of the internal borders (cantonement and corporation, gram Panchayat and corporation) become the safe zones for residents to dump garbage
Taking a holistic approach of including the peripheral gram panchayats is the only way to succeed
Also utilising Belgaum s industrial base to come out with cost effective solutions instead of buying something grandiose under the pretext of cleanliness will surely derail the whole project
People should get smart, aware and educated about the civic sense. Unless people don’t understand the civic sense and stop throwing garbage the city will never be clean. I request to start a campaign where you eduacate them about the waste management.