India, Sept. 30 -- With industrialisation increasing in the rural areas of Pune district and local gram panchayats not getting land to process the waste, the district administration has now decided to follow a cluster approach for solid waste management.

Side by side with industrialisation, urbanisation is also advancing at a fast pace. And local bodies are not equipped to dispose and process the garbage. Chakan Municipal Council, too, is facing this situation as no land is available or appropriate for garbage processing, as most of the times people reject the idea of a garbage processing plant near their homes. In this backdrop, Pune Zilla Parishad's chief executive officer Gajanan Patil held a meeting with the district administration t...