ANSWER: Integrated Waste Management System
Explanation:
The Government has launched a web-based application on Integrated Waste Management System (IWMS) – www.iwms.nic.in for better management of waste. App has been developed for following reasons:
(1) Help people to apply and get online permissions for import and export of certain categories of waste, which is for reuse or recycling or recovery or co-processing and ultimately to conserve our primary resource.
(2) Help authorities in web-based processing, generation and grant of various types of certification/ permissions to the entrepreneurs and industries.
(3) Implement concept of paperless/ green office; the system has inbuilt arrangements for uploading the supporting documents / annexure, along with the online applications.
(4) Provide an insight to the number of authorization/ certificates granted under consent to establish, or consent to operate, from time to time across the country and make available at any point the information regarding number authorizations / consent orders granted by the State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs).
(5) Enable user agencies to check the fate of their application any time through this web-based portal..
(6) Generate database on waste generating/ processing industrial units under construction, or operation by consolidating the information regarding Consent to Establish, Consent to Operate and Authorization, import/export permission
(7) Generate data base on different categories of wastes generated viz hazardous, biomedical, municipal, electronic, plastic waste etc.
