What counts as municipal and waste management equipment?
Municipal work is what a city body pays for outside its offices: cleaning open drains and nallahs before the monsoon, clearing old dumpsites, running waste yards, and repairing streets, footpaths, parks and ponds. Much of it is small-scale earthmoving in tight spaces. Backhoe loaders, skid steer loaders and mini excavators fit narrow lanes. Long reach excavators clean wide nallahs and lakes from the bank, wheel loaders move waste at processing yards, and small rollers and graders finish street work.
Waste management also uses machines DesiMachines does not list. Refuse compactor trucks and tippers collect and carry the waste. Mechanical sweepers clean the roads, jetting and suction machines clear blocked drains and sewers, and trommel screens sort old waste during biomining.
Where is this work concentrated in India?
Old city dumpsites are where much of the heavy municipal machine work now sits. By March 2023, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs reported that Maharashtra and Telangana had cleared the most legacy waste, followed by Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra had finished the most dumpsites.
In Delhi, the same ministry is working with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to clear the three old dumpsites at Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla.
Storm water drains are the other large job. In Uttarakhand, the state’s Urban Sector Development Agency is building storm water drainage and sewer networks under a project that covers Dehradun, Haldwani, Nainital and Tanakpur. Each state page lists the machines, dealers and tenders for that state.
Who funds and runs municipal and waste work?
City works are paid for by central missions and awarded by municipal corporations and state agencies. Waste contractors run much of the collection, processing and dumpsite clearing. Machine owners usually reach this work by hiring to the contractor who wins a ward, a drain package or a dumpsite. The list is alphabetical, not a ranking.
| Body, scheme or company |
What it funds, runs or does |
| AMRUT 2.0 |
Central mission under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs that funds city water supply, sewerage and the revival of ponds and lakes |
| Antony Waste Handling Cell |
Collects, transports and processes city waste for municipal corporations, with mechanised sweeping and construction waste handling |
| Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation |
Its storm water drains department builds drains and desilts the major and minor nallahs, culverts and lakes of Mumbai |
| Indore Municipal Corporation |
Turns the wet waste of the city into bio-CNG at a plant set up with a private partner |
| Municipal Corporation of Delhi |
Clearing the Bhalswa dumpsite with the Delhi Development Authority and setting up new waste processing sites |
| Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) 2.0 |
Central mission under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs that funds waste processing and the clearing of old dumpsites |
| Uttarakhand Urban Sector Development Agency |
State agency building sewer and storm water drainage networks in Uttarakhand towns |
| Zigma Global Environ Solutions |
Biomining contractor that digs out and processes legacy waste from dumpsites for urban local bodies |
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