Role of karnataka compost development corporation urban waste management
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The Karnataka Compost Development Corporation is one of thirteen such plants in India constructed in 1975, based on World Health Organisation’s technology as per the directions of Government of India to 22 states and the recommendation of Sivaraman Committee.
This was India’s first public sector unit involved in Municipal Solid Waste management that has successfully managed to compost city waste. This initiative was funded by Karnataka Agro Industries Corporation (51%), BBMP(24.5%) and Karnataka State Co-operative Marketing (24.5%)
“KCDC has made use of low cost and indigenous machines that can work with unsegregated waste,” says Venkoji Rao, Advisor to the KCDC.
Without any budgetary support, the KCDC has managed its activities with revenues from the sale of manure produced through aerobic and vermin-composting.
The manure produced is sent to the Department of Agriculture and is sold at 50 percent subsidy to farmers across Karnataka and India.
Old garbage, old problems
The KCDC also has the responsibility of treating around a lakh tons of mixed waste accumulated over last few years.Around 1000 tons of mixed waste was being sent daily from 2005, but KCDC could not process it all in time. In 2008, KCDC stopped accepting waste from the BBMP as the residents of the H S R Layout protested over unbearable stink and stench produced from over five lakh tons of unsegregated waste.
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