Patna: Deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary on Thursday stressed the need to find out ways for proper waste management, which would also yield income.
He said that people needed to work with the mindset of “waste to wealth” and then only the entire campaign of making Bihar a clean and garbage-free state would materialize.“Better waste management will not only make our cities garbage-free and hygienic, but also increase the income of the state exchequer,” said the deputy CM at the inaugural ceremony of a collaborative conclave on ‘Sharing best practices and developing roadmap for waste management’ in a city hotel.
The conclave is being attended by the representatives of eight states — Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Tamil Nadu — along with the official of the central government and IIT-Roorkee experts among others.
Expecting the event will help chalk out a plan for making the cities spick and span, Choudhary added reusing the waste would also control pollution that would, in turn, help maintain better health of the common mass. He also said that mayors would be complimented for maintaining cleanliness in their cities, and hence they should strive for the same.
On the occasion, urban development and housing department minister Nitin Nabin too said waste was worth gold in the current scenario. “The department will develop waste management as an industry. We have organized this conclave to focus on solid waste collection, segregation and processing. The conclave will also find out ways to better our performance in the field of waste management,” he said.
Elected members and officials from 19 municipal corporations of the state and representatives of 24 national and international companies were also present on the occasion.

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