- Saaf Aangan information
- Saaf Aangan (“clean courtyard”) Scheme  
- SAAF AANGAN (Mumbai formula)
- Saaf Aangan Initiatives

 - ILFS Report on Selection of Waste Processing Technology and Scientific Management of Landfills, MCGM - January 2006 (pdf) 

If you are an individual / ngo / commercial org / govt. body, that can offer any services / expertise to others regarding any cleanliness inititiative, please send the following details: 
- Your profile, note, presentation (e.g. powerpoint), services offered, rates.
- If you can only give a talk, that is also valuable. 
- If you have a CD, pl send it to us for uploading.

- Polyethylene Therephthalate (PET) Recycling Unit at Bandra (BMC Patrika, May-2005) 
- Tender for cleaning of roads & footpaths under "Parivartan Prakalp" Clean Mumbai Campaign: No. 206317 dt. 03-02-06 (marathi - pdf) (15 Feb 06)
- Note for suggested BMC policy for Ragpickers -- draft 2 (3 Feb 2006) (please respond)
    - Clarifications: note for suggested BMC policy for Ragpickers (3 Feb 2006)
- Recommendations by Jyoti Mhapsekar of Stree Mukti Sangathan (SMS) for dry waste and waste pickers 
    -  Organising the Unorganised: Case Study of KKPKP, Pune (Trade Union of Waste-pickers) 
    -  Environmental Entrepreneurship Program for Urban Poor Women by SMS 
- Suggestions to make ragpickers stakeholders of the recyclables (3 Feb 2006) 
- Permitting the rag pickers to collect the waste from homes, shops and market places 
- Ragpickers run clean revolution (3 Feb 2006) 
- Thane sends rag-pickers to homes to collect trash  (3 Feb 2006) 
- Trash to Fashion - nearly Rs. 1 crore a year by ragpickers 
- Policy for integrating ragpickers in waste collection and disposal system of swm dept. (pdf) 
3 Feb 06 
- RAIL CLEANUP-Wanted: Ragpickers with good track record (HT, 20 Aug 07)

- BMC list of 17 engineers incharge of cleanliness in different wards (solid waste department)  
- MCGM’s wardwise Officers  Assistant Engineer (Environment) 
-- MCGM's Assistant Engineer (Maintenance)

Statistics
 
- BMC Statistical Data   
- Statistics of waste generated daily 
      - Cleanliness statistics - 1 - Almitra Patel  
      - Cleanliness statistics - 2 - Priya Ubale 
- Right to Information Application by Dr. Ramesh Wasudeo 

Government Rules & Acts  

- Maharashtra Ordinance No. IV of 2006   (pdf) (22 Mar 06)
   - Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (control) Ordinance 2006 for Environment (pdf) (22 Mar 06)
   -Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (control) Ordinance 2006 for Plastic (pdf) (22 Mar 06)

- Environment Status of Brihanmumbai 2004-2005  (pdf) (25 Mar 06)
- Environment Status of Brihanmumbai 2003-2004  (pdf) (25 Mar 06)
- Environment Status of Brihanmumbai 2002-2003  (pdf) (25 Mar 06)
     - Executive Summary
     - Pollution level
     - List of  Tables

- Manual on Pay and Use Public Sanitary Conveniences in Mumbai (24 Feb 06)
- New solid waste management (SWM) contracts and licences
    - Schedule of Penalties
    -  Vinay's Comments: Desired objectives & terms for tender for waste transport contractors 
    -  MSW container specifications
   
 - Construction & demolition & de-silting waste (management & disposal) Rules 2006
    -  NGO Council recommendations / comments on C & D and De-silting Waste (M & D) Guidelines - Sep 05 
  
- Report of Committee of Supreme Court - March 1999 on SWM in Class 1 Cities of India
     
- Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000  
    -  Guidelines for Implementation of MSW (M&H) Rules, 2000  
    
- Bio-Medical Waste (M & H) Rules, 1998
- Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Amendment Rules, 2000  
- Dhaka Recommendation 2004 on Waste Management 
- Re-cycled Plastics Manufacture and Usage Rules, 1999 
    -  Integrated Approach For Plastics Waste Management  
- BMC- Environment status report - 2002-2003  
- Permitting the rag pickers to collect the waste from homes, shops and market places 
- Maharashtra Pollution Control Board website
- MCGB Market Departments (PDF) (18-12-05) 
- Policy Guidelines for Granting Permission to Utility & Municipal Agencies for Excavation & Reinstatement thereafter (2 Jan 06)
- MCGM Draft Compost Purchase Rules (pdf) (6 Jan 06) 
- Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project  (12 Jan 06) 
- SWM dept. Invitation of Expression of Interest (pdf) (Jan 25 06) 
- MCGM circular to use vermiculture bin for disposal of wet waste dt. 9 Jan 2003 7 Feb 06
- MCGM circular for measures to handle debris lying on footpaths and roads dt. 14 Nov 05 (pdf) 7 Feb 06
- Notifications, rules regarding ban on plastic bags, Government of Himachal Pradesh (13 Feb 06)

Links to websites & articles on Cleanliness and SWM 

- BMC goes under to give surface succour. Micro Tunnelling at 14 more points in City (BMC Patrika, May-2005)
- Mumbai demands SAFE NON-VEGETARIAN FOOD! (1 Mar 06) 
- What is Urban Poverty?
- Lessons from community-based initiatives in solid waste    
- Community Partnerships in Integrated Sustainable Waste Management 
- Pilot Project on Solid Waste Management in Khulna City   
- CWG – WASH Workshop 2006 - Solid Waste, Health and the Millennium Development Goals  
- U. S. Environmental Protection Agency State wise for Solid and Hazardous Waste 
- Solid Waste Management - Best Practices in India (pdf) (11 Jan 2006)
- Writ Petition No 2546 between Mumbai Med Waste Action Group V/s MCGM on Bio Medical Waste  (pdf) (17Jan 2006) 
- Garbage bins and the Kyoto protocol. Capitalise on carbon credit trading to solve urban solid waste disposal problem
- Schools learn lesson in better waste management (20Jan 06)
- BMC to put microbes to work at Deonar (20 Jan 06)
- Biomedical waste - Pollution board raps 7 hospitals (20 Jan 06)
- Dump debris in low-lying sites, says civic body (24 Jan 06)
- Extended Producer Responsibility: A Responsible Materials Policy  (27 Jan 06)
- A summary of Policy instruments applied around the world to tackle the plastic bags problem (pdf) (13 Feb 06)
- The ban on plastic bags in Goa, Navhind Times February 9, 2006 (13 Feb 06) 
- Plastic Bag Ban in Bangalore, Darjeeling & Goa (13 Feb 06) 
- 200+ Cleanliness articles (including 60 articles by Almitra Patel) 
- Waste generated by "Tabela" owners (2 Mar 06)
- Flooding in Mumbai 
- COMPOST COMFORT - Don't bin the waste, pot it, says this Bangalore start-up
- BMC's decision on security agencies for garbage by-laws on hold
- Railways to employ ragpickers for cleaning railway stations and selected stretches of tracks
- Recycling : A global work in progress - the fate of a plastic bottle (Publication : DNA; Section :   World; Pg : 16; Date : 24/2/07)
- Trash means Cash (Mumbai Mirror;Date:Aug 17, 2007; Section:Bombay Buck; Pg:13)
- Decision on security agencies for garbage by-laws on hold (IE, Pg : 3; Date : 23Aug07)

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