The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dhaka

Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has introduced community-based waste management in its ward no 44 setting up community groups to manage solid waste at the community level.

The initiative was taken under a DCC project titled 'Strengthening of Solid Waste Management (SSWM)' of Dhaka City, which is being implemented from last year with the support of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), DCC sources said.

Representatives of the community in ward no 44 organized a discussion meeting at Town Hall Market at the ward here to mark the lunching of the community based waste management in their ward on Saturday.

Deputy Resident Representative of JICA Hirosawa, Project Director of DCC's landfill improvement project Tarique Bin Yusuf, Commissioner of Ward 44, Arjuda Bashar Lucky, DCC officials, JICA Expert Team, and community representatives attended the meeting.

Under the project, DCC has already introduced community based waste management system in several wards of the city through carrying out mass awareness campaign for waste disposal, said the sources.

DCC has been working to improve the overall solid waste management of Dhaka City, with the technical assistance of JICA since 2000.

Through concerted effort, a master plan titled "Clean Dhaka Master Plan" with a target year of 2015 was formulated in 2005, encompassing every aspect of solid waste such as public awareness raising, primary collection, secondary collection, final disposal sites as well as administration and financial management, said the sources.