Live
- SCDRC vested with authority to enforce orders, issue warrants, rules Delhi High Court
- RTC Driver Dies of Heart Attack While Driving Bus
- Rs 1,000 crore earmarked for venture fund to Indian space startups: Minister
- Rahul Gandhi has not improved, he's aligned with anti-national elements: Union Minister Rijiju
- AI can help improve advanced pain management, find researchers
- Haryana sees 67.90 pc polling, says Chief Electoral Officer
- Gujarat to mark 23 years of progress under Narendra Modi's leadership with 'Vikas Saptah'
- Women’s T20 WC: Too soon to say anything, medics are looking at it, says Smriti on Harmanpreet’s injury
- World Cerebral Palsy Day: Raising awareness key to build inclusive society
- Militants in Gaza fire three rockets into Israel
GHMC to host waste management summit today
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), in coordination with ELETS Technologies, will be hosting National Waste Management Summit here on Saturday to identify the best practices innovations and technologies in waste management and to promote them among the leaders of civic authorities and key stake-holders, including public and private sectors.
​Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), in coordination with ELETS Technologies, will be hosting National Waste Management Summit here on Saturday to identify the best practices innovations and technologies in waste management and to promote them among the leaders of civic authorities and key stake-holders, including public and private sectors.
Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development K Taraka Rama Rao and Mayor Bonthu Rammohan are likely to inaugurate the summit. High Court Judge Justice Kodandaram, MA&UD Secretary Navin Mittal and City Police Commissioner Mahender Reddy will participate in the summit. Best practices, innovations,and technologies in waste management will be discussed where officials and public representatives of different municipal corporations across the country are likely to attend.
Representatives from Spain are also expected to participate. In the summit, themes like Leadership and Governance in Waste Management; Best and next practices in sustainable waste management from public and private sectors; private-public partnership in local government development and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in waste management; financing system and support in waste management; the role of technologies in waste management – RFID, LOT, GPS would be discussed.
In addition, wealth of waste; gas, energy, paper, furniture; demos and ideas; scientific and green toilets, innovative sewerage treatment plants, sweeping trucks, water purify technologies and disposal technologies will be discussed, said GHMC Commissioner BJanardhan Reddy.
Apart from State and Central Government officials, experts in the field of Health & Sanitation, representatives from Netherlands, Spain, France, Israel Embassies have also been invited, said the Commissioner.
