Municipal Solid Waste Management in India: The Challenges and Solutions

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In India, the planners have never considered waste management in general—and municipal solid waste (MSW) management in particular—to be a part of development and urbanization. Since it has never been the focus of development process of the nation, we have landed in the present crisis of MSW management, which needs immediate attention of the top policymakers to come out with the explicit policy-based programme backed by sound policy regime and political will.