The jurisdiction of the rules have been extended beyond Municipal area to
cover, outgrowths in urban agglomerations, census towns, notified industrial
townships, areas under the control of Indian Railways, airports, airbase, Port and
harbour, defense establishments, special economic zones, State and Central
government organizations, places of pilgrims, religious & historical importance .
2. The issue of collection and disposal of sanitary waste like diapers, sanitary
padsand other disposal items have been addressed:
• Manufacturers or Brand Owners or marketing companies of sanitary napkins
and diapers should explore the possibility of using all recyclable materials in
their products or they shall provide a pouch or wrapper for disposal of each
napkin or diapers along with the packet of their sanitary products.
• All such manufacturers, brand owners or marketing companies should
educate the masses for wrapping and disposal of their products.
• The manufacturers or Brand owners of sanitary napkins and diapers shall
provide a pouch or wrapper for disposal of each napkin or diapers along with
the packet of their sanitary products.
• All such manufacturers, brand owners or marketing companies shall educate
the masses for wrapping and disposal of their products.
• All such brand owners who sale or market their products in such packaging
material which are non‐biodegradable should put in place a system to collect
back the packaging waste generated due to their production.
3. The concept of partnership in Swachh Bharat has been introduced. Bulk and
Institutional Generators, Market Associations, event organizers and Hotels and
restaurants have been directly made responsible for Segregation and Sorting the
waste and manage in partnership with Local Bodies:
• An event or gathering organiser of more than 100 persons at any licensed/
unlicensed place should ensure segregation of waste at source and handing
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over of segregated waste to waste collector or agency as specified by local
authority
• All hotels and restaurants should segregate biodegradable waste and set up a
system of collection or follow the system of collection set up by local body to
ensure that such food waste is utilized for composting / biomethanation.
• All Resident Welfare and Market Associations, Gated communities and
institution with an area >5,000 sq. m should segregate waste at source‐ in to
valuable dry waste like plastic, tin, glass, paper, etc. andhandover recyclable
material to either the authorized waste pickers or the authorized recyclers or
to Urban Local body.
• The bio‐degradable waste shall be processed, treated and disposed off
through composting or bio‐methanation within the premises as far as
possible. The residual waste shall be given to the waste collectors or agency
as directed by the local authority.
• Every street vendor should keep suitable containers for storage of waste
generated during the course of his activity such as food waste, disposable
plates, cups, cans, wrappers, coconut shells, leftover food, vegetables, fruits
etc. and deposit such waste at waste storage depot or container or vehicle as
notified by the local authority
• The developers of Special Economic Zone, Industrial Estate, Industrial park to
earmark at least 5% of the total area of the plot or minimum 5 plots/ sheds
for recovery and recycling facility.
4. Being the nodal Ministry on the subject Solid Waste Management, more
responsibilities have been assigned to MoUD. State Urban Development Department
should
i. prepare a state policy on solid waste management within a year
ii. ensure identification and allocation of suitable land for setting up
processing and disposal facilities for solid wastes within one year and
incorporate them in the master plan,
iii. ensure that a separate space for segregation, storage, decentralized
processing of solid waste is demarcated in the development plan for
group housing or commercial, institutional or any other non3
residential complex exceeding 200 dwelling or having a plot area
exceeding 5,000 square meters;
iv. ensure that the developers of Special Economic Zone, Industrial Estate,
Industrial park earmark at least 5% of the total area of the plot or
minimum 5 plots/ sheds for recovery and recycling facility
v. notify buffer zone for the solid waste processing and disposal facilities
of more than 5 tons per day in consultation with the State Pollution
Control Board and
vi. start a scheme on registration of waste pickers and waste dealers.
5. Integration of Waste pickers/ Rag pickers and waste dealers/ KabadiWalas in
the formal system should be done by State Governments, and Self Help Group or
any other Group to be formed.
6. Department of Fertilisers, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers should
provide market development assistance on city compost and ensure promotion of
co‐marketing of compost with chemical fertilizers in the ratio of 3 to 4 bags: 6 to 7
bags by the fertilizer companies to the extent compost is made available for
marketing to the companies.
7, Ministry of Agriculture, should provide flexibility in Fertiliser Control Order
for manufacturing and sale of compost, propagateutlisation of compost on farm
land, set up laboratories to test quality of compost produced by local authorities or
their authorized agencies.
8. Ministry of Power should decide tariff or charges for the power generated
from the Waste to Energy plants based on solid waste and ensure compulsory
purchase power generated from such Waste to Energy plants by DISCOMs.
9. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Sources should facilitate
infrastructure creation for Waste to Energy plants and provide appropriate subsidy
or incentives for such Waste to Energy plants
10. The SWM Rules, 2016 emphasises promotion of waste to energy plant:
• All industrial units using fuel and located within 100 km from a solid waste
based RDF plant shall make arrangements within six months from the date of
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notification of these rules to replace at least 5 % of their fuel requirement by
RDF so produced.
• Non‐recyclable waste having calorific value of 1500 K/cal/kg or more shall
not be disposed of on landfills and shall only be utilized for generating energy
either or through refuse derived fuel or by giving away as feed stock for
preparing refuse derived fuel.
• High calorific wastes shall be used for co‐processing in cement or thermal
power plants.
• Ministry of Power shouldfix tariff or charges for the power generated from
the Waste to Energy plants based on solid waste and ensure compulsory
purchase of power generated from such Waste to Energy plants by DISCOMs .
• The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Sourcesshall facilitate
infrastructure creation for Waste to Energy plants and provide appropriate
subsidy or incentives for such Waste to Energy plants.
11. Secretary, State Urban Development Department, the Commissioner
Municipal Administration, Director of Local Bodies, local authorities and village
Panchayats of census towns and urban agglomerationsare responsible for
preparation ofstate policy and solid waste management strategy in consultation
with stakeholders including representative of waste pickers, self‐help group and
similar groups working in the field of waste management.
12. User fee for solid waste management, spot fine for littering have been
introduced which shall be as specified in the bye‐laws of the local bodies.
13. The SWM Rules 2016 provide for detailed criteria for setting‐up solid waste
processing and treatment facility, solid waste management in hilly areas, for waste
to energy process, for Sanitary Landfills,for site selection, development of facilities
at the sanitary landfills, specifications for land filling operations and closure on
completion of landfilling, pollution prevention, Closure and Rehabilitation of Old
Dumps etc.
14. The State Pollution Control Board shall be responsible for review of
implementation of these rules, grant / renew authorization for waste treatment and
disposal facility, monitor environmental standards, regulate Inter‐State movement
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of waste, submit Annual Report to CPCB.
15. The CPCB shall co‐ordinate with SPCBs and review the implementations,
publish guidelines for maintaining buffer zone restricting any residential,
commercial or any other construction activity from the outer boundary of the waste
processing and disposal facilities for different sizes of facilities handling more than
5 tons per day of solid waste.
16. The SWM Rules, 2016 mandates
i. setting up solid waste processing facilities by all local bodies
having 100000 or more population: within two years
ii. census towns below 100000 population, setting up common or standalone
sanitary landfills by or for all local bodies having 0.5 million or
more population and setting up common or regional sanitary landfills
by all local bodies and census towns under 0.5 million populationthree
years
iii. bio‐remediation or capping of old and abandoned dump sites‐five
years.
17. The Central Monitoring Committee to review the implementation of SWM
Rules, 2016 has been strengthened.
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