2.3.6 People-prioritized community scenario

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shall help in attracting more visitors and act as an economic engine. New potential tourist magnets can also be integrated with canal edges. 6. Decentralized SWM unit: By spatially anchoring waste management facilities and decentralising the management processes, the load on the centralised system could be reduced and the process could be made community-driven.

Figure 51: Precedent images for key components of community framework plan

2.3.6 People-prioritized community scenario:

The framework brings together all principles and weaves together a holistic network that can improve service delivery and bring in lifestyle changes for the communities living along the canal. The framework looks at three layers of interventions as block-level interventions, household-level interventions, and special interventions.

The principles for community framework addresses ways to mobilise communities to deal with solid waste management and other civic issues that negatively impact the public realm. By distributing accountability to the communities the long-lasting challenge is turned into an opportunity. Other key concepts are the potential of community-led “ waste as a resource, ” programmes and circular economy concepts in order to reimagine and expand the idea of decentralised waste management as the lynchpin of sustainable communities along the canal.