URBAN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: Issues and Challenges of Sustainability

Dr. Sudipto Ghosh, an Urban Planner, currently attached with Bansberia Municipality, Hooghly, West Bengal, dealing with improving the quality of life of urban places. He is a Ph D in sociology and is an expert in the fields of microfinance, entrepreneurship, planning, and livelihood. As a planning expert in the government, he has more than fifteen years of experience in the urban and rural sector. He is involved in the preparation of city planning and various development project reports for local government bodies. He has published several papers and books to international publishers. He has presented papers in the International Seminar on Solid Waste Management held at Jadavpur University and in the National Workshop on Sanitation in New Delhi in the year 2016 organized by the Government of India. He is also a Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBl) resource person working for the Financial Literacy Programme and has been involved in advising the organization on social development issues.

Dr. Amit Bhandari is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Rishi Bankim Chandra Evening College, India. He is a Research Fellow at IZA Institute of Labour Economics, Bonn, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics at the University of Kalyani, India. Formerly, he was a lecturer in economics and finance at the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IlSWBM), Kolkata. His works have been published in reputed journals and books. He has a broad interdisciplinary research interest in behavioural, development and financial economics. His research work has been funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and the University Grants Commission (UGC), India.