WASTE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE SMART CITIES IN INDIA

Abstract

In developing country like India development has got direct link with rapid urbanization. As per present
assessment India’s population will be about 600 million by 2030, which will be about two times of US population. This
increase in population will create lot of imbalance in urban infrastructure, unless some innovative solution is evolved for
long term sustainability. The strategies considering green building concept can be evolved for sustainable cities and
towns. It is a fact that way in which are population growth is taking place, the natural resources of the world is nearing to
a breaking point. The real challenges is Global warming, pollution of air, degradation of land, scarcity of fresh water,
overall shortage of food and bio-biodiversity is getting reduced, which are the real issues to be encountered. Recently
smart city concept is gaining ground world-wide. In smart city concept sustaining water, energy and management of
waste including restricting greenhouse emissions will be major priority areas. All these are deliberated for smart cities
being planned in India. We can formulate our policies based on various experiences gained by advanced countries while
carrying out planning/execution of their smart cities