NGNK Objectives: 1. To achieve total attitudinal change in the society, whereby people would adopt and accept sanitation as a part of their lifestyle. 2. To establish an integrated approach towards sanitation which lays equal emphasis on the management of a) excreta, b) urine, c) wastewater, d) solid waste, e) clean and safe drinking water, and f) personal hygiene and sanitary habits. 3. To establish recycling potential of all the human wastes mentioned above by evolving simple but scientific methods whereby sanitation activities will become ‘waste management programmes’ instead of ‘waste disposal programmes’.NGNK activities focus on related training, experimentation, education and extension of sanitation technologies to the society. NGNK have trained over 4000 government officials on sanitation. NGNK has developed various low-cost sanitation technologies like odorless urinal (converts human urine into precious manure), Vermitank/Vermibox (converts domestic garbage and kitchen waste into good quality organic manure), and leach pits (cost effective wastewater recycling technique to reuse and recycle domestic wastewater). On the education front, NGNK conducts various awareness programs to educate people to adopt sanitary interventions as well as sanitary habits. Additionally, NGNK has developed a six-moth correspondence course to educate and train individuals in sanitation. Project: The objective of the project is threefold: (i) field testing of waste management experiments done on NGNK campus, (ii) spreading awareness and encourage use of these indigenous sanitation technologies to urban and rural communities, and (iii) adaptive research for improvement of these technologies based on feedback from end-users. The project helped disseminate the message of reusing household wastes and transforming it into useful manure. In addition, the project also helped in highlighting the decentralized approach of waste management and the economic potential of such eco-friendly waste management technologies. For more details please see project related documents below. Sankalpa’s funding is utilized as subsidy to the project participants – for example, if a particular household is well to do then they will fund the entire installation of the waste management technology (Vermitank/Vermibox/Leach Pit) and receive zero subsidies, however in the rural areas a 100% subsidy will be offered. Leach pit: A low cost but effective alternative for management of household greywater. It can either help in growing some garden trees around or the water can recharge the ground water source. Vermitank: It is a masonry structure, which can be erected in the courtyard and can take care of all the biodegradable garbage generated in an average Indian household including the garbage from the garden. Community Vermitank, a modified version of Vermitank, which can take care of garbage on a larger scale e.g. an apartment or a group of houses is shown on the right.   Project Timeline: * Project Initiation: May 2004 * Project Visit: December 2004 * Interim Project Report: April 2005 * Project Completion: June 2005 Project related documents (proposals, reports, etc): Project proposal submitted by NGNK for funding requests [View Proposal] Project report by Prashant who visited the project site in 2004 [View Report] Interim report submitted by the Nirmal Gram Nirman Kendra [View Report] Final report submitted by the Nirmal Gram Nirman Kendra [View Report] |
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Field Trial of ‘Household Waste Management Systems’ |