Solid Waste Management (SWM) has been under government’s control. Governments have been providing SWM and other services like sanitation, water supply, etc., through municipalities. But the level of service provided by these municipalities is not up to the mark. Also there is a need of infusing capital into this sector to cope with the emerging needs and increasing the level of service. This paper suggests a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model based on cross-subsidized approach: a nominal fee for garbage collection would be charged from commercial and households residing in organized apartment (societies) and the same money would help provide better services to the lower group of society. In return of this fee the garbage would be collected from their door steps. But for applying this model there has to be an optimal ratio of payers to subsidizers. If this ratio is not optimal then it will again make this model economically unviable. To overcome this problem, this paper suggests an integrated infrastructure development approach in which the private players who would be involved in collection and transportation of waste, would also process it. This means an ‘end-to-end’ solution. Selling electricity generated by waste would be the main source of revenue. However, as the power plant would be generating clean electricity, there would be carbon credits for this, which again is a source of income. And apart from this, municipality would pay a certain amount per truck of waste processed, i.e., tipping fee.

India has been moving on the path of progress and development. Development came into India, in the form of privatization or we can say privatization has fostered the pace of development for a number of sectors in India. As of now, the focus of government is on developing infrastructure as early and as fast as possible. But the question we need to answer is that “Is privatization really being involved to develop country’s infrastructure?” In authors’ opinion the answer is ‘partially yes’. Indian government has been trying to lure investors to invest in infrastructure projects like power, roads, ports, etc., but why not in sectors like sanitation, water and drainage, sewerage, Solid Waste Management (SWM), etc.

The paper tries to highlight, taking SWM as focus of study, the bottlenecks of the current SWM system being run by municipalities. Also it suggests an integrated approach of infrastructure development by defining a new Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model to introduce privatization into SWM sector, which has been an economically unviable sector for private sector investments.

In this paper, Dehradun city has been taken as a subject to test the feasibility of the model suggested in the paper.

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