Clean Jharkhand Project (CJP) supported by India Canada Environment Facility is a community based Solid Waste Management Program which seeks to improve the scenario of solid waste management in State of Jharkhand though Policy Advocacy and Field Demonstration.

PROPOSED LINE OF ACTION
At Demonstration Level :

• Ensuring People's participation in Solid Waste Management through Mass Awareness (Door step theme camps, rally, kala jatha, road shows, puppetry, nukkad nataks, demo, cable, hoardings, local dailies, cultural shows, SHG meetings etc.), Environment education to school children (green brigade formation, Action exposures, debates, painting Competitions, cultural shows, theme camps, drama etc.), Strong Campaigning and People's Movement.

• Organization of Community Pockets (100 PDCs from project's assistance and 200 through replication measures to cater 60% of Ranchi's population) and Waste Pickers for primary door step collection of Waste, its onwards transportation and temporary storage on full cost recovery basis in containerized trolleys and further its treatment and disposal on a sustainable basis.

• Creation of Waste Management plan for different pockets, colonies and areas of Ranchi city to determine the sites for Primary Storage depots, Transit points, Road length fixation and Garbage processing mechanisms.

• Capacity building to the project team, PDC representatives, Community leaders, Rag Pickers and representatives of various Municipalities of the state (for replication measures) for professional handling and management of Waste.

• Collection of Waste through community bins, Lanes, storage points and transit points and its further transportation to processing/disposal sites.

• Conversion of Waste into productive Aerobic and Vermicompost including Paper recycling and its meaningful dissemination and marketing.

• Demonstration of an approach of revenue generation through Resource Recovery and its further use for developmental reasons in the City.

At Policy Level :

• Facilitate preparation and adoption of policy on Solid Waste Management for State of Jharkhand.

• Policy Dissemination Workshops for concerned stakeholders.

• Follow up visits to other Municipalities in Jharkhand state for replication of Demo intervention and realization of policy framework.

Duration :
5 Years (Nov.2002 - Oct.2007)

Resource Provider :
India Canada Environment Facility (ICEF)
A Joint Agency of Govt. of India & Canada.

THE STAKEHOLDER
Top Level

•  The State Government.

•  Community colonies and institutions.

•  Municipal Corporation, Ranchi and other Municipalities of the State.

•  Slum level institutions.

•  The Local community.

•  Concerned regulatory authorities.

•  Children from local schools of Ranchi City .

Middle Level

•  Local institutions.

•  Environment clubs.

•  Municipality staffs and project team.

End Level Beneficiaries

•  Community colonies.

•  Rag pickers and jamadars

•  Unemployed youths including women.

•  Local physical environment.

•  Shopkeepers and markets community.

•  Restaurants, hotels and dharamshalas.

•  Slum dwellers.

•  Dairy farms.

•  Daily rural migrant population.

•  Mobile shopkeepers/laborers.

•  Ranchi Municipal area.

OUTPUTS
1. Awareness Generated on various Solid Waste issues

2. Capacity building of various stakeholders undertaken

3. Policy document prepared and made functional

4. PDCs formed, strengthened and made operational in Ranchi

5. Demonstration project commissioned and sustained

6. Resources produced and markets established.

OUTCOMES
•  Improved institutional and local environment for Solid Waste Management in Jharkhand.

The clear-cut government policy on waste management and the community based waste management mechanism proposed would open up newer avenues for the approach dissemination in other cities and areas of Jharkhand in a sustainable manner and would firmly place up better institutional and local environment as a result of the interventions.

•  Increased community participation for action in Solid Waste Management in the Ranchi city.

It is expected that success in resource recovery in specific city pockets and areas through mass awareness and community action would further encourage people's participation in the programme and more and more community level institutions (PDCs) would then opt out for similar venture.

•  Enhanced resource recovery from Solid Waste thereby ensuring sustainability.

The resource recovery approach would not only lessen the existing burden on local physical environment but also provide gainful employment to the hundreds of disadvantaged including Rag pickers and beggars and also give meaningful thrust to the concept of organic farming (waste is wealth) in the area and beyond.