JEL Classification: Q53                                                                                                                                             https://doi.org/10.65176/IJLM.V2I1.17

Abstract
In the process of ‘restless formation and reformation of landscape’, to use Soja’s coinage, ‘solid waste finds its geographical loci in a special context of time, space and the social being”. (Nath et al, 2018, p.1348). Juxtaposing Foucault’s statement of “Space treated as dead, fixed, undialectical, immobile and time on the contrary as rich, fecundity, life, and dialectic”, NIMBY (Not in My Back Courtyard) happens to be the thumb rule of Solid Waste Disposal. If one takes Foucault’s conviction of present epoch as above all the epoch of SPACE i.e. the epoch of simultaneity, epoch of near and far, of side by side, of the dispersed, then MSWM (Municipal Solid Waste Management), enjoining the intertextuality of “social production of space and the restless reformation of geographical landscapes, social being emplaced in space and time in an explicitly historical and geographical contextualisation, calls for action on “why and how it (solid waste) is created in the very first place and how soon it is to be disposed of, as much as it is spatiality: that is where it is created and where it is disposed of”. If the creation of solid waste is a free gift of the modernisation process, then mountain-like landfills are the best symbol of postmodern architectural and sculptural design available in every urban settlement of the Global South. The present paper struggles to untie the camouflaged grid of Swachh Bharat Mission – Urban 2.0, in the framework of SWM Rules 2016 (India), with a single pivot of segregation of SW by the generator. Segregation by generator (as per SWM Rules 2016) straddles the grand canvas of the narrative of urban local governance, with formal adherence to rule of law on the one hand, and the process of negotiation, mediation, and bargaining by the household Solid Waste generator in their behavioural architecture in solid waste disposal practices on the other.

Keywords:  SM Rules 2016 and 2025, Segregation, Gurugram, NIMBY

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