Social Enterprises for Garbage Free Cities: SBM-U 2.0 organizes national conclave to encourage women entrepreneurs in waste management
Social Enterprises for Garbage Free Cities: SBM-U 2.0 organizes national conclave to encourage women entrepreneurs in waste management
National Capacity Building Framework for Garbage Free Cities launched at Conclave
Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0), under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), organized the National conclave on ‘Social Enterprises for Garbage Free Cities: Encouraging Women Entrepreneurs in Waste management’on Thursday in Raipur, in collaboration with the Government of Chhattisgarh,as a run-up to International Women’s Day. The event, which saw participation from nearly 100 delegates, including senior bureaucrats and staff from 19 States and their ULBs, sector partners, and representatives of women-led waste management enterprises from across the country, was attended by dignitaries including Shiv Kumar Daharia, Minister for Urban Development, Chhattisgarh, AijazDheebar, Mayor of Raipur Municipal Corporation, Manoj Joshi, Secretary, MoHUA, Amitabh Jain, Chief Secretary, Chhattisgarh, AlarmelMangai D, Secretary, Urban Development, Chhattisgarh, andRoopa Mishra, Joint Secretary and National Mission Director, SBM-U 2.0.
The event was streamed live on https://youtu.be/5TP1rjZGFA8.The event was also attended by nearly 100 ‘swachchatadidis’–members of women Self-help groups from across Chhattisgarh who are empowered to handle the entire decentralized Solid Waste management chain across the State -from door to door collection of segregated waste, collection of user charges, to transporting the collected waste to local solid and liquid source management (SLRM) centres for further sorting, processing, recycling and final disposal. Additionally, lakhs of viewers across cities attended the event on virtual mode.
Shri Shiv Kumar Daharia in his address, emphasized that swachhatadidis were mainly instrumental for bringing in massive behavior change around waste management among citizens which has resulted in the pre-eminent position attained by Chhattisgarh as the cleanest city in the country for 3 successive years under SBM-U.The Mayor of Raipur, while highlighting various waste management initiatives such as setting up women-run bartan banks across all 10 zones, as well as
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The key highlight of the day was a series of presentations from women-led waste management enterprises. These included HasiruDala, a Bangalore-based organization working with waste pickers, Pune’s Red Dot campaign by SWaCH co-operative working to spread awareness regarding menstrual health, Gurugram’s SAAHAS NGO working on source segregation of waste, SHE teams from Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu engaged in operating and maintaining community toilets in slums, and transgender teams from Cuttack operating and managing end to end sanitation facilities – from community toilets to fecal sludge treatment plants. This was followed by a heartwarming fireside chatby swachhata ambassador VeenaSendrewith a few SwachhataDidis, who described how their lives had transformed for the better through their involvement in the sanitation and waste management activities. As a fitting tribute to the undying dedication of these Swachhata Champions, swachhatadidis from 5 divisions were felicitated by the dignitaries.
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