भारत में ठोस अपशिष्ट प्रबंधन नियम, 2016 के अनुसार, निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा एक कथन सही है?
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As per the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 in India, which one of the following statements is correct?
(a) Waste generator has to segregate waste into five categories. · (b) The Rules are applicable to notified urban local bodies, notified towns and all industrial townships only. · (c) The Rules provide for exact and elaborate criteria for the identification of sites for landfills and waste processing facilities. · (d) It is mandatory on the part of waste generator that the waste generated in one district cannot be moved to another district.
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (c) इन नियमों में अपशिष्ट भराव स्थलों तथा अपशिष्ट प्रसंस्करण सुविधाओं के लिए सटीक और ब्यौरेवार मानदंड उपबंधित हैं।
Option (c) is correct because Schedule I of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 gives detailed site-selection criteria for sanitary landfills, such as minimum distances from rivers, ponds, highways, habitations and airports. The other three options misstate the rules.
- ✗ (a) Rule 4 asks every waste generator to segregate waste into three streams: bio-degradable, non bio-degradable and domestic hazardous waste. There is no five-way split.
- ✗ (b) Rule 2 applies the Rules far more widely than 'only' urban local bodies, notified towns and industrial townships. It also covers census towns, outgrowths of urban agglomerations, railways, airports, ports, defence establishments, SEZs and more.
- ✓ (c) Schedule I lays down criteria such as a landfill 100 metres from a river, 200 metres from a pond, highways, habitations, public parks and water supply wells, and 20 km from airports.
- ✗ (d) The Rules contain no ban on moving waste between districts. They say the State Pollution Control Board regulates inter-State movement of waste.
- • Since then The Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 have since been superseded by the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, notified in January 2026 and in force from 1 April 2026. The new Rules make four-stream segregation (wet, dry, sanitary and special care waste) mandatory (PIB).
Remember · Under the 2016 Rules, waste is segregated into three streams and Schedule I fixes landfill siting distances; the 2026 Rules replaced these with four-stream segregation.
Sources
- Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (Gazette text, CPCB), Schedule I, criteria for site selection ↗ “The landfill site shall be 100 meter away from river, 200 meter from a pond, 200 meter from Highways, Habitations, Public Parks and water supply wells and 20 km away from Airports or Airbase. … segregate and store the waste generated by them in three separate streams namely bio-degradable, non bio- degradable and domestic hazardous wastes in suitable bins”
- PIB: New Solid Waste Management Rules Notified; To Come into Force from April 1, 2026 ↗ “Waste is required to be segregated into wet waste, dry waste, sanitary waste and special care waste.”
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2019, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·