Advisories launched on World Environment Day by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Part of: GS-Prelims and GS-III – Environment
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Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs recently launched advisories on the occasion of World Environment Day.
Key takeaways
These advisories are:
Advisory on Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
Advisory on Landfill Reclamation
Draft advisory on On-site and Off-site Sewage Management Practices.
These advisories have been prepared by the Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation (CPHEEO) under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban).
These are part of an effort to find and facilitate sustainable solutions to some of the key problems which prevent holistic sanitation and solid waste management.
A toolkit for a communication campaign on faecal sludge management titled ‘Malasur- The Demon of Defeca’ was also released.
It aims at heightening the risk perception of faecal sludge.
Important value additions
World Environment Day
It is celebrated on 5th June every year.
This year’s theme is ‘Biodiversity’.
In India, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change held virtual celebrations on this year’s theme with focus on Nagar Van (Urban Forests).
It relaunched a scheme (Nagar Van Scheme) for creating urban forest in 200 corporations and cities because all these cities have gardens but not forests.
The forests shall come up either on existing forest land or on any other vacant land offered by urban local bodies.
Wajre Urban forest in Pune, Maharashtra has been developed on a 40 acre degraded land area. It sets right model for Nagar Van scheme.
The urban forests will help in reducing pollution in these cities.
