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TERI-GIZ
SURVEY
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SURVEY SAMPLEPANAJI: Following a citizen perception survey, a team of TERI and German government agency GIZ has concluded that decentralization and creating awareness of the solid waste management laws among stakeholders including residents is the way forward to establish a sustainable solid waste management system for the city.
>> Covered 625 households, 100 hotels, one educational institute and 400 commercial establishments
THE FINDING
Structured approach of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) towards source segregation of waste
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CCP SCORES
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71 PERCENT
Of the household respondents felt Panaji was a clean city
88 PERCENT
Were happy with the waste management services offered by the CCP
60 PERCENT
Rated door-to-door coverage system of segregated waste as excellent
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SURVEYORS
>> Kaushik Chandrasekhar
>> Shabana Mehmood Kazi
>> Dr Suneel Pandey
>> Vaibhav Rathi
The TERI-GIZ survey was conducted by Kaushik Chandrashekar, Shabana Mehmood Kazi, Dr Suneel Pandey and Vaibhav Rathi under the aegis of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) under the NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action) waste initiative.
It covered 625 households, 100 hotels, one educational institute and 400 commercial establishments and it found that there has been a structured approach of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) towards source segregation of waste.
However, the overall awareness quotient regarding waste management needed to improve. While around 85% of commercial establishments were unaware about the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Rules, 2016 notified by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC) in the year 2016 roughly 60% of households were unaware of how their waste was handled post disposal from their doorstep.
The survey also noted, close to 99.5% of the households and 88% of the commercial establishments were found unaware of CCP’s toll free helpline number-1800 233 3948). The number was introduced to assist citizens with resolving their solid waste related grievances. The ‘Swachh App’ utilization also showed low penetration with 97% of the household respondents and 86% of the commercial establishments not using it or were unaware of its existence.
From the tourism industry, 86% of the respondents from hotels suggested that no information was being provided by their hotels to tourists about the current SWM practices followed in Panaji. Further, it was also understood that 99% of the hotels were yet to introduce any form of waste processing (for eg composting) within their facilities. Majority of the respondents from the commercial establishments comprising shops, offices and hotels also communicated the need for common dustbins in crowded areas in the city so as to avoid litter and dumping of waste.
As encouraging signals for CCP, the survey established that 71% of the household respondents felt Panjim was a clean city with 88% happy with the waste management services offered by the CCP in terms of their reliability and punctuality. Further, about 60% of the respondents rated CCP’s Door to Door Coverage system of segregated waste to be excellent.
Way Ahead
With the survey indicating that nearly 96% of the commercial establishments and households are yet to take part in a waste related awareness/training programme, the need for rolling out such initiatives would be among the first steps.
CCP has taken steps towards this direction and have initiated preparation of waste management awareness and outreach plan for all stakeholders in Panaji along with implementation for a period of 3 years.
This would also assist in bringing about a mind-set and behavioural change towards segregating the waste at source and even processing the waste at the source of generation which is either in homes or in commercial establishment.
Identifying bulk waste generators such as hotels, restaurants casinos etc. as priority, CCP convened a meeting of the bulk waste generators in May 2019 to apprise them about the need for processing the waste within their premises and their associated responsibilities as a part of MSW 2016 rules. Furthermore, GIZ and TERI are also working with CCP to improve the efficiency of its decentralized composting system, and developing innovative models to incentivize recycling.
GIZ India in partnership with TERI has been implementing the Waste NAMA project in the cities of Varanasi and Panjim. The project is supported by The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU), Germany with lead executing agency Ministry of MoEFCC, Government of India.The project aims to implement low carbon measures to reduce emissions from the solid waste sector and thereby seeks to reduce the amount of waste being mismanaged in these cities.
