Articles by Kiran D A

Kiran D A, a researcher and practitioner at IIHS, has over six years of experience in solid waste management. He has consulted for 20 urban local bodies and authored 22 peer-reviewed research papers. His work spans waste-to-composting, material recovery facilities, biomining legacy waste, and designing municipal waste collection and transportation systems.

Solid waste management is perhaps among the most overwhelming problems that Indian cities are grappling with today. But while the complexities around waste management in big cities are discussed widely, the challenges faced by smaller Indian cities and towns are even more complex due to limited scale, inadequate funding and institutional capacity constraints. Tier-1 and some Tier-2 cities have set up infrastructure and allocated resources for waste processing, but in general, small cities struggle to do so. As a result, waste processing in these cities is almost negligible, with only a few exceptions.   Chikkaballapura is a Tier-2 city located about…

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