Government is encouraging Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to manage municipal solid waste in scientific manner including processing waste to-compost and other process

Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Government is encouraging Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to manage municipal solid waste in scientific manner including processing waste to-compost and other process

Govt has introduced a Policy on promotion of City Compost with Market Development Assistance (MDA) of Rs. 1500/- MT in the form of subsidy : Shri Gowda

Posted On: 15 SEP 2020 4:56PM by PIB Delhi

The Government is encouraging Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to manage municipal solid waste in scientific manner including processing waste –to-compost and other process.  The Government has introduced a policy on promotion of City Compost wherein a Market Development Assistance (MDA) of Rs. 1500/- MT in the form of subsidy has been provided for scaling up production and consumption of city compost made out from city waste. 

This information was given by minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Shri D V Sadananda Gowda in a written reply in  Lok Sabha today.

Shri Gowda said that initially, marketing and promotion of city compost was done through the existing fertilizer marketing companies. Subsequently to increase the volume of sale and to make compost available at affordable prices to farmers, compost manufacturers willing to market city compost were allowed for sale of compost in bulk directly to farmers and claim MDA.

The Minister further informed that the fertilizer companies have adopted 498 villages for promoting use of city compost. With the concerted efforts of the Government as well as fertilizer marketing companies/marketing entities, the production and sale of city compost has increased consistently over the years. The exact year-wise production and sales position for the last four years  is as under:

 ( in MT)

Year	Production of city compost	Sale by marketing   companies	Bulk Sale   by  manufacturing companies	Total sale
2016-17	196999.32	96584.00	-	96584.00
2017-18	338701.38	123569.87	75492.04	199061.91
2018-19	363261.24	195551.48	111078.99	306630.47
2019-20	327790.58	215725.88	108872.57	324598.45

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