FAQs on TNUSSP

How will the costs of operating and maintaining the FSTPs be covered into the future?

What is the average cost of the FSM plant?

As part of the overall sanitation improvement of the State, what works have been initiated in terms of strengthening the capacity of ULBs and institutionalising the concepts of sanitation beyond FSM?

Can circular economy be achieved in FSM?

How many cities are planned to be covered?

The FSTP system is based on collection from housing units; was the previous system based on individual septic tank at house level or was it already dependent on city collection system?

Co-treatment allows only Urban HH containment? Or both rural and urban? Whether co treatment is urban-rural?

For clustering, what is the incentive for a ULB that has a treatment plant to share its capacity with others? Were there any cost sharing arrangements? How it became successful in your case?

Is there a big advantage in this cluster system compared to traditional centralised system? What are the gains you made by opting this new strategy of FSM?

“Light touch” regulation of private FSM service providers – Are more details on this available?