Jorhat, May 15: The Jorhat district administration has engaged Vellore-based consultant C. Srinivasan who appeared in actor Aamir Khan's TV series Satyamev Jayate last year, for designing projects and imparting training on garbage management and converting it into resources.
Srinivasan, a project director of Indian Green Service, is known within and outside India for modelsdeveloped by him to convert "garbage into gold" by using a garbage management programme through door-to-door garbage collection.
Jorhat deputy commissioner Solanki Vishal Vasant said the administration had planned to start garbage disposal through "sustainable solid and liquid resource management" programme developed by Srinivasan in areas under the Jorhat Municipal Board, town committees of Teok, Titabar and Mariani and 22 selected gaon panchayats of the district.
Solanki said according to Srinivasan's model, the areas where it will be adopted will become clean and green and will provide self-employment opportunities to unemployed youths to convert garbage into a variety of resources which could be sold in the market.
"Garbage will be looked as income-generating resource rather than waste after the training."
The deputy commissioner said the administration would provide assistance to the youths of the civic bodies and gaon panchayat areas who have come forward to undergo a 15-day training session under way since Tuesday, by way of necessary support from government departments.
The officials, too, were undergoing training.
Solanki said the administration would arrange funds from several government schemes like Swach Bharat and MANASA (Mukhyamantrir Asom Nirmal Aru Seuj Abhijan) to those interested entrepreneurs to purchase equipment and set up the required infrastructure to run the programme.
The project director of District Rural Development Agency (Jorhat), Laya Madduri, who is in-charge of the training programme, said a core committee, having officials from several government departments, scientists, prominent citizens and social workers, would be formed to supervise implementation of the project.
She said representatives from all spheres - business establishments, education, health, scientific research organisation NGOs, banks, financial institutes and public representatives, too, were also attending the training programme.
Srinivasan told The Telegraph that his model of solid waste management involves human and animals in re-using and recycling waste.
He said the training modules will make people understand all the different aspects of treating and recycling unwanted solid and liquid materials.
Srinivasan said initially the people are being made to understand that all kinds of garbage - at home, offices, markets and factories are not waste, but something which can be converted into useful resources and sold.
He said according to his model, there should not be any dustbin on roads which pollute the atmosphere and instead people should be asked to separately dump organic and inorganic waste in red and blue containers which would be picked up twice daily - by persons employed by the entrepreneur running the project - from their houses.
