National Conclave on Social Enterprises for Garbage Free Cities: Encouraging Women Entrepreneurs in

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Last Updated02/03/2022

Organizing under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0, under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
In collaboration with the Government of Chhattisgarh.

It is an event to witness the release of “National Capacity Building Framework for Garbage Free Cities” under SBM-Urban 2.0.
The event will serve as a platform for peer learning for States and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) on various centralized and decentralized waste management practices.
It will help build capabilities of relevant stakeholders to strengthen the urban sanitation sector in the country.

The participants: to engage in an on-ground cleanliness drive on the banks of the Mahanadi river, along with NCC cadets.
To be followed by a visit to the Solid Liquid Resource Management (SLRM) Center at nearby Patan.
Segregated waste collected from households to be brought to the SLRM center where inorganic (dry/non-bio-degradable) fractions are further sorted into various subcategories.
To be done for subsequent recycling/processing and value recovery.
Participants will engage in ‘shramdaan’ at the SLRM center and physically sort some of the dry waste into further fractions.
It will help sensitize them about the importance of such multiple sorting and segregation for ease of subsequent disposal to recover maximum value from waste.
The participants will be taken on field visits to a vermi-composting center for demonstrating scientific, value-added processing of segregated wet waste to compost.
The launch of the theme song ‘Swachhata Jaari Hai’.

The event will be presenting various women-led waste management initiatives from across the country.
Examples:

Hasiru Dala: a Bangalore-based organization works with waste pickers to transform them into waste entrepreneurs.
Cuttack Municipal Corporation, Odisha: working to economically empower transgender-led self-help groups by engaging them as waste operators.
Pune’s Red Dot campaign by SWaCH co-operative: working to spread awareness regarding menstrual health, along with safe and sustainable disposal of sanitary waste.
SHE teams: Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, women-led self-help groups - set up entrepreneurial ventures for operating and maintaining community toilets in slums, and spreading awareness regarding healthy sanitation and hygiene practices in slum communities.
Saahas NGO(Gurugram, Haryana): spearheading the ‘Alag Karo Campaign- Har Din Teen Bin’ to create awareness and implement source segregation of municipal solid waste into 3 fractions – wet (biodegradable), dry (non-biodegradable) and domestic hazardous - by residential communities.

Largest urban sanitation revolution in the world: harnessed the commitment of 130 crore citizens towards building a ‘Clean India.
All 35 States and Urban Territories (UTs) are Open Defecation Free (ODF).
The practice of segregating waste at source is adopted across 87% of wards in the country.
Waste processing: gone up by nearly 4 times, from 18% in 2014 to 71% at present.

Enable environment for development of startups and entrepreneurs, including women-led ventures, in the waste management sector.
Identify innovative solutions across various themes such as: