STREAMS OF ACTION
HEALTH OFFICER
- Full updated assessment of Gram Panchayat sanitation (public toilets, drains) and water bodies (river, tirthas, ponds, samudra)
- Teach, train and pilot a task force of 10 people to implement the sanitary project
GRAM PANCHAYAT
Stop trashing – provide information on the SWM rules
- Identify all stakeholders (homes, business, temples, etc)
- Provide information to stakeholders on rules and request compliance from them
- Invite educational support from all schools level (flyers with rules, divulgation)
- Make needful awareness raising tools (posters, booklets, flyers, boards, movies, etc.)
- Give memorandum of understanding for local clean behaviour at the Check post
- Fix fees for waste collection
- Fix bylaws for penalties applying to the following offences:
- Giving plastics to public
- Littering
- Burning whichever trash
- Dumping trash anywhere, especially in the drains
- Failure to segregate garbage at source
8. Fix warns to immediately stop dumping at water bodies: drains, tirthas and ponds
9. Place warning/explaining boards on littering, dumping, burning
10. Ambulant loud announcement everywhere explaining trash system & fines
11. Management of ayyappa & shivaratri pilgrims intensifying boards about fines for OD & trashing
12. Spread FaceBook information on rules for visitors
13. Create a wikipedia page about local trash management and list of good practices
Managing trash – Outline a comprehensive plan for Gokarna SWM with a tentative timeline
- Define trash system and contents for flyers & boards
- Map trash collection zones (samudra, roads, streets, footpaths, no access points, etc.), groups, and broad timings
- Immediate segregation at source (dry and wet) with adjusted collection
- Place enough bins, covered and embedded, in tactical points
- Place abundant boards about fines and penalties
- Register with GP all local waste generators and respective collection fees
- Register with GP Ragpickers Team (train, value and empower – aadhar card, children education, medical facilities)
- Reinforce warning boards at public critical places: dumping & burning are offence, etc.
- Train conveniently GP sweepers and other sanitary workers
- Respect trash pick ups timings to eliminate the habit for people to dump
- Enforce composting or methanation of wet waste for commercial food providers, schools, bulk waste generators (bhojanalaya) & other public wet wasters
CATALYSER COMMITTEE
- Organise full Press Coverage and Support for the project
- Organise Training programmes for sanitary workers, householders and schools
- Request residents and rikshaw walas to monitor and promptly report any dumping/ burning
- Closely monitor the GP management of ayyappa & shivaratri pilgrims and other massive events
- Keep regular audits to ensure that all sectors are applying the procedures correctly
TALUKA PANCHAYAT
- Trigger coordination with surrounding Gram Panchayats & Municipalities for dry waste collecting and recycling centres
- Identify key options and the financial support for each option
- Allot land for storing the collected segregated items
- Assign land for eventual recycling plants for dry waste & biogas units for wet waste
DISTRICT COMMISSIONNER
- Call for a volunteer brigade from schools (students, teachers, principals), youth groups, SHGs, NGOs & local bodies to jointly firstly spread information, secondly monitor the project
- Provide a task force of 10 people to local Health Officer, for 3 months
- Appoint a doctor for the consultations at the government hospital, for 3 months, or, still better, upgrade the PHC.
- Apply for Green Pilgrimage Network
START-UP
- Immediately before starting the project make with all local stakeholders (inclusive of authorities – DC,TP, GP, etc) a massive clean up day of the accumulated trash with a brigade monitoring and reporting its achievement
- Clean the river & the drainage
- Make a Gokarna Shuddha Festival for launching the project
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the CATALYSER COMMITTEE