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Moumita Bakshi

New Delhi , June 23

AMID rising concerns over e-waste in India, top personal computer (PC) manufacturers are now coming together to find a workable solution, including proposing a draft legislation on e-waste management.

As a first step towards this, the industry is understood to have held a video conference recently where it was decided that MNCs here would seek the views of their parent organisations, which are already working on e-waste initiatives in Europe and the US.

At the meeting, it was also decided to collect and compile the process, success stories and best practices on e-waste management by leading PC and hardware manufacturers and put it on hardware association MAIT's Web site for awareness creation, sources said.

The meeting also formed an industry taskforce under Mr Sanjay Handu, Chairman - Southern Region, MAIT (Tyco Electronics Corporation), to take the initiative forward. Mr Arun Bhagat (Acer India), Mr Rajeev Mathur (IBM India) and Mr Sai Chandrasekhar (HP India) are the other members of this taskforce.

Keeping in view that any legislation that is passed would have far reaching consequences on the business, the players have also decided to come out with a draft legislation prepared by the industry. Legislations of other industries would be referred for this purpose, sources pointed out.

E-waste or Waste from Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) refers to products having a battery or an electrical cord, which have become obsolete either due to advancement in technology, According to a survey carried out by IRG Systems South Asia (on behalf of GTZ), the total WEEE in India has been estimated to be 1,46,180 tonnes a year based on selected EEE tracer items. This figure does not include WEEE imports. Mumbai currently tops the list of major cities with e-waste. The country's financial hub has an estimated 11,017 tonnes of e-waste, followed by Delhi - 9,730 tonnes, Bangalore - 4,648 tonnes, Chennai - 4,132 tonnes and Kolkata - 4,025 tonnes. Even smaller cities such as Ahmedabad (3,287 tonnes), Hyderabad (2,833 tonnes), Pune (2,584 tonnes) and Surat (1,836 tonnes) figure in the list.

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