NPTEL : NOC:Sustainable and Affordable Sanitation Solutions for Small Towns: Policy, Planning and Practice (Multi-Disciplinary)

Co-ordinators : Prof. N.C Narayanan


Lecture 1 - Introduction to the Issue of Sanitation

Lecture 2 - Overview of Sanitation in the country

Lecture 3 - Centralised or Decentralised?

Lecture 4 - Need for Participatory Planning

Lecture 5 - Context setting for the Alappuzha Project

Lecture 6 - Environmental Policy

Lecture 7 - Environmental Impact Assessment 2006 and National Urban Sanitation Plan

Lecture 8 - Environmental Governance - Challenges and Alternatives

Lecture 9 - Municipal Solid Waste Management

Lecture 10 - MSWM - Status, Policy, governance structure

Lecture 11 - Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management

Lecture 12 - Plastic Waste Management

Lecture 13 - Municipal Solid Waste Management in Alappuzha

Lecture 14 - Liquid Waste Management - an Overview

Lecture 15 - Introduction to Faecal Sludge Management

Lecture 16 - Faecal Sludge Management for Alappuzha town

Lecture 17 - Introduction to liquid waste treatment technologies

Lecture 18 - Decentralized Waste Water Treatment system - An Introduction

Lecture 19 - Case studies - Decentralised waste water treatment

Lecture 20 - Decentralized waste water treatment systems plan for Alappuzha

Lecture 21 - History of Sanitation in Alappuzha

Lecture 22 - Organic waste management in Alappuzha

Lecture 23 - Inorganic waste management - Role of Kudumbashree and Haritha Karma Sena

Lecture 24 - Youth engagement for recaiming canals

Lecture 25 - Significance of institution building in reclaiming canals