Environment-Parisara
Samarthanam Environment projects for building a green city
Propagation – Source Segregation
Efficient Collection System
Sorting and sending materials for Recycling through bulk waste generators or direct recyclers
metric tonnes of dry-waste collected
corporate collaborations for dry-waste collection
residences covered for dry-waste collection/segregation
Let us Present a Greener Tomorrow to Our Next Generations!
PARISARA
Samarthanam Parisara, the waste management program initiated in the year 2003 by Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled aims to Educate and Empower youth to create business opportunities available in waste. The vision of Parisara is to educate the community to Reduce waste, Reuse and Recycles waste into opportunities that alleviate poverty.
The Major Accomplishments of Samarthanam Parisara :
- Working with an objective of creating cleaner and greener environment through segregation of waste at source, reducing landfill space, Creating sustainable livelihood among waste collectors’, waste handlers’, waste pickers.
- Ward Awareness program and Livelihood of rag picker community.
And Samarthanam works in 28 wards with BBMP for an ITC CSR initiative program named WOW – Well-being out of Waste. This has benefitted Municipality by saving 2 lakhs rupees every month. Since 8 years, Parisara in association with BBMP has cleared more than 200 Black spot areas in Bangalore and beautified the place by Planting trees & Coloring the walls of the streets. - Samarthanam is working in 5 Wards since January 2022, for TESCO CSR project “ReWare” which includes Mahadevpura Zone – Garudacharpalya, Kadugodi, Hagaduru, Bommanahalli Zone – HSR Layout, Hongasandra of Bangalore .
- 1000 plus Pourakarmikas and Rag pickers have been sensitized.
19
years into providing cost-effective solutions
120
+corporate
20
+educational institutions
15
+apartments covered
For its environment-friendly activities, Samarthanam Parisara bagged the prestigious “Green Star Award,” a Procam International initiative marking the 5th Edition of TCS World 10K, in 2012. Puneet Rajkumar, a Kannada movie personality, and celebrity presented this award to Founder Managing Trustee, Mahantesh GK.
Smart City award
BBMP appreciation certificate
Green Star Award
Samarthanam’s current Projects include
- Dry Waste Management Solutions to Corporates, Educational Institutions, Apartments, Individual Houses
- Waste awareness program by fostering Community awareness program and sustainable model for Waste picker community.
- Save water concept model – Rain Water Harvesting – for 37 Government Schools, R.O Plant Installation – for 10 Government Schools and Urban Afforestation with total number of saplings planted is 42750.
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Samarthanam’s Parisara initiatives have ushered
- Behavioral change for Citizens to ensure Source Segregation.
- Maximum value from each waste stream
- Sustainable livelihoods for waste collection workers
- Reduced dependence on depleting Natural Resources
- Reduced landfill space.
- Cleaner and greener environment
Parisara Dry Waste Helpline: +919449864680
WELL-BEING OUT OF WASTE
Well-being Out of Waste (WOW)” is a recycling programme, initiated in 2007, by the Paperboards and Specialty Papers Business of ITC. It is a corporate level program where the focus is on ensuring proper segregation and recycling of waste.
Recycling is one of the most important and viable ways to combat the challenges of resource depletion. Source Segregation of recyclables reduces the load on natural resources, provide cost effective raw material to industry, improve health and hygiene and provide clean and green surroundings. To ensure a clean and hygienic neighborhood and create sustainable livelihood for the participants involved in the waste management process, in association with Samarthanam, ITC executes various programmes with the help of BBMP.
3
million citizens
500000
school children
1000
commercial establishments
- WOW was conceptualized to address the crucial issue of post-consumer waste management in line with the Government’s `Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ programme. The programme aims to create awareness among general public about the “Reduce-Reuse-Recycle” approach.
- WOW programme is today being actively propagated and is receiving widespread support across 8 cities in South India, including Bengaluru, Chennai and Coimbatore and 5 cities in Telangana with further plans on expansion.
- WOW programme started with a collection of just 10 MT of recyclables in 2007 and swelled to collection of over 20000 MT.
- Over 2500 waste handlers have gained sustainable livelihoods through this activity.
- Total No of Ward covered – 32 wards (of city municipal corporation – Bruhat Bengaluru maha nagara palike BBMP)
TESCO
TESCO – ReWare
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Objective – •To promote waste management system that educates to reduce, reuse and recycle waste
into opportunities that alleviate poverty. •To bring in the behavior change among general community regarding waste segregation at source level.
•To increase the quantity of recycling of waste by avoiding the land fill.
•To create cleaner and greener environment through segregation of waste at source.
•To make the livelihood better for Rag pickers.
•Collaborating with local governments and communities to build integrated systems and Swachh Bharat Mission.
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Scope – •Creating awareness to the community level by Individual, mass/ public / educational forms and handovers the informative brochure, which self-explanatory about the types of waste to handle at source. Followed with the regular interaction with the waste handlers / Pourakarmikas and sensitizing them about the effective management of health, waste materials during waste handling etc. Which helps the livelihood waste handlers / Poura Karmikas and their family members.
•Also ensures to keep the ward clean and remove the black spot by engaging volunteers and with the help of rag pickers, community leaders.
•The entire process of the project helps to keep the air clean and prevents many air borne diseases by spreading.
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Project Goal
Creating waste management awareness in 5 localities of Bangalore where in up to
TESCO – Project Stake Holders
PROJECT BRIEF
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Project Sponsor |
TESCO |
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Project Approval Date |
29th Dec 2021 |
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Project |
ReWare |
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Project Owner |
Samarthanam Trust for the disabled |
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Key Project Contacts |
Manvi Bansal Satish M Aisha Anjum |
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Ask: |
To create waste management awareness and improvise the livelihood of waste handlers |
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Project Manager |
Mr. Satish |
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Project Justification Submission |
30th Dec 2024 |
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Project Area |
Bengaluru 5 wards |
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BOMMANAHALLI ZONE |
HSR LAYOUT , HONGASANDRA |
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MAHADEVPURA ZONE |
GARUDACHARPALYA, KADUGUDI, HAGADURU |
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Beneficiaries |
Community and waste handlers |
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Background |
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Presently, Bengaluru City is facing significant problems due to existing disposal practices of generated waste, incurring high cost due to lack of proper infrastructural facilities; also, the open dumping in the expanding zone of the city poses severe problems to the structures constructed on these old dumps. Bangalore city generates around 4500MT/day of municipal solid waste (MSW) at an average of 0.5 kg/day/per capita, with about 8.4 million people. Less than 60% of waste is collected; approximately 15% of waste is processed finally dumped into landfills. While recycling has not reached its full potential in Bangalore. |
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In Scope |
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•Meeting and getting approvals from the municipal corporations.
•Creating awareness to the community and in public areas
•Developing good rapport with the waste handlers
•Identification of volunteering groups in the community
•Conducting awareness sessions in the educational institutes
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Objectives (aligned to Programme brief) |
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•To bring behaviour change in the community wrt waste management at source.
•To improve Livelihood of waste handlers
•To successfully complete the project goal by before Dec 2024
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Out of Scope |
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•Frequent changes in SWM rules from Municipality.
•Floating community population
•Natural disasters / calamities
•High political influence
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Benefits |
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Timelines |
Completion of project by 2024 Dec in all 5 wards / localities of Bengaluru |
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Assumptions, Risks, Dependencies |
R: Changes in the rules of Solid waste management by Municipality D: Dependency on entire plan, selected locality and timeline A: Behaviour of the waste handler, community and support of Municipal authorities |
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Supporting documents |
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PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT
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ACTIVITIES |
TOTAL |
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Total No of ward’s |
5 |
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Total Blocks in the ward |
152 |
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Total Blocks covered |
110 |
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Total No. of Poura Karmika’s / waste Handlers benefitted |
850 (People / individuals) |
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Total No. of house propagated |
74041 No’s |
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Total No. of householders benefitted (individuals) |
296164 (People) |
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Total No of Commercial shops awareness |
11263 No’s |
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Total No. of Mass Awareness Activity |
120 times |
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Total No. of Street plays |
34 performance |
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Total No. of PK’s orientation programs |
54 events |
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Total No. of Penalty Drives in the ward |
122 times |
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Total No. of PK’s felicitation programs |
16 events |
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Plastic Ban Activities |
46 times |
Samarthanam’s Green Projects
Suchitha
Food waste converter, installed at Samarthanam, converts 70-100 kgs of food waste generated in one day at Samarthanam into organic manure.
Solar Power Grid
Solar panels installed at Samarthanam support the electrical energy requirements of the organization.
Sewage Treatment Plant
STP built in at Samarthanam treats waste water by eliminating the harmful contaminants in the most ecological manner. The plant treated 66500 liters of water till date.
Plant Nursery
A wide variety of indoor and ornamental plants are grown at Samarthanam’s nursery planted in cement pots, for in-house purchasing and corporate gifting.
