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UN award for Jaipur - based NGO

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, SEPT. 13. The Jaipur-based Centre for Development Communication has been selected by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) for the 2004 Scroll of Honour award in recognition of its contribution to the improvement in the living conditions of slum dwellers in the Rajasthan capital.

The CDC has been engaged in the municipal solid waste management since 1997, supplementing the Municipal Corporation's efforts in the face of growing urbanisation. The non-Government organisation runs a daily door-to-door waste collection programme involving rag-pickers and labourers.

The service introduced on a modest scale in Jaipur with 2,000 houses has been growing continuously and the CDC is now working in six cities across the country, catering to nearly 20-lakh households. Rag-pickers who spent their life rummaging through debris with bare hands at foul-smelling and unhygienic places have been absorbed into the venture on a large scale.

The CDC trustee secretary, Vivek S. Agrawal, said here today that the award committee of the UN-Habitat looked into the NGO's efforts to involve the local communities in its drive to improve their living conditions and environment, while deciding to confer the award on the CDC.

The Executive Director of the UN-Habitat, Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, has informed Dr. Agrawal that the award committee looked at the long-term sustainability and the way innovations reached as many people as possible while concluding that the CDC should receive the award this year. Dr. Agrawal said the CDC had evolved an innovative model for management of domestic waste that linked household efforts with the services of municipal bodies. Waste is collected everyday and broadly segregated in two parts -- wet and dry -- and used for vermicomposting and various recycling activities, such as making cardboards, paper and carpets. The CDC is currently running its activities in Jaipur, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Nanded and Surat.

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