scholarly journals An economic analysis due to municipal solid waste in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu

Author(s):  
R. Sunandhini ◽  
C. Sekar

Negative externalities caused by municipal solid waste have led to severe pollution of surface and groundwater sources and health status, which have ultimately affected the livelihood of the poor. Environmental problems in the agricultural sector and household sector caused by solid waste in Coimbatore district have been discussed in this study. Garrett’s Score and Contingent Valuation technique have been employed for this purpose. The major constraints faced by the respondents were health hazards, unpleasant odour, poor land quality and poor quality of irrigation water. The farmers and the households in the study area are well aware about the detrimental effects of solid waste and they have expressed their willingness to pay for internalizing the negative externalities even though it is duty of local institution/Government.

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Valencia ◽  
W. van der Zon ◽  
H. Woelders ◽  
H.J. Lubberding ◽  
H.J. Gijzen

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parul Sundha ◽  
Nirmalendu Basak ◽  
Arvind Kumar Rai ◽  
Rajender Kumar Yadav ◽  
Dinesh Kumar Sharma

Author(s):  
P. Radhakrishnan ◽  
M. Asokhan

The extent of participation in rural developmental activities of rural youth in the development process is essential in order to bring the changes in socio-economic structure and improving the quality of life. The place of rural youth class is more peculiar and important for the future of country. Rural youth are the precious human assets who can play an important role in the development of agriculture and other allied activities. Youths can make their productive  contribution to national development and through which society can benefit from the idealism and the sense of dedication of youth at the same time, they also occasionally involved in extent of participation in rural developmental activities in a village side like village sanitation, construction of youth club building, afforestation activities and natural calamity relief work etc., Since such a kind of rural developmental activities are increases their self-esteem, self-confidence, motivation and aspiration to give them a sense of identity and of being needed by the society. India has rich rural youth potential. The population of rural youth in developmental activities contribute to national development. Hence, the above facts revealed that the participation of youth in rural development activities is very significant and essential phenomena. Therefore, this attempt was made in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu with the 200 sample size of rural youth respondents. Cent per cent of the respondents have taken up activities related with adult literacy programme, construction of school building, afforestation activities and other social cultural activities. With regard to the adult literacy programme most of the respondents (93.00 per cent) stated that they have regularly participated in the related activities. Almost a similar percentage of the respondents have also regularly participated in the activities related with social cultural programme (94.50 per cent), construction of school building (89.50 per cent), afforestation activities (87.50 per cent), whereas the other respondents have participated in the above activities either occasionally or rarely.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Vincent

Ground water samples in and around from the dumpsite located in Arumuganeri were studied to assess the impact of Municipal solid waste on the ground water resources. Ground water samples were collected from the 5 different bore-wells in and around the dumpsites.The collected water samples were analyzed for parameters of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Total Alkalinity (TA), Total hardness, chloride and dissolved oxygen. The results were observed in each sample , compared with standards WHO, ICMR, ISI and thus  an  attempt  was  made  to  ascertain  whether  the quality  of  ground  water  is  fit  or  not  for  drinking  and  other  purposes.


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