Neha Saini

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 29

The Amritsar Army Cantonment is set to become the first Army Cantonment in the country to adopt the Solid Liquid Resource Management (SLRM) model designed by eco expert and conservationist C Srinivasan. He was in the city to conduct a workshop-cum-training session with volunteers, including the 2,000 families living inside the Cantonment.Initiating the secondary and tertiary garbage management that will include dry and wet waste, along with non-biodegradable waste, cantonment will also create sites for collecting and recycling waste material. Informing about the project, CO, Army Cantt, Amritsar, Dheeraj Sonaje, said, “We were having a problem in disposing of our garbage as there was no awareness regarding different concepts. But we will now implement initial, secondary and tertiary waste management principles, preparing a team of volunteers, who will oversee the entire project. The standardised procedure will have one tricycle for 200 families, including six trained volunteers, four responsible for collection of garbage, one for supervising the entire process and another for segregating non-biodegardable waste.”The Cantonment has approx. population of 10, 400 people, out of which several, members will be trained for the project. Srinivasan also visited and shortlisted three sites for storage of non-biogradable waste. “The three buildings to be used as sites include Old slaughter house, an abandoned gas agency and a barrack that was once used to house troops. All the principles of SLRM will be implemented and the waste treated will in fact be used to generated revenue by the Cantonment,” said Srinivasan.Sanoje proposed the idea as he was impressed by the concept of generating jobs and revenue from waste. “The quantum of income is high and it will also take create of our waste disposal problem. We plan to begin the first phase of project by October and complete it by November,” he says.