The project has been able to identify the areas in the city of Tirupathi in partnership with the MC and the District Collector (DC). The program has been given an identity as MESMICA - ?Model Ecosystems Management Involvement of Community Action? and is implemented through three NGO partners, SCHWEPS, Pen India and Animal Careland. Two areas i.e. temple core area and the vegetable market area have been identified in the city of Tirupathi and in each area the 7 resident welfare societies (RWAs) have been formed with a total of 530 communities. In each of these RWAs, the office bearers within the communities have been participatory selected as members in monitoring the programs and although the titles have been given, the idea is more of social audit of the program. A systemic functional set up has been made with the TMC by the institution. Nearly 90 % of the communities have started payments for the collection of the waste from their premises. The collection charges vary from place to place and are slowing beginning to take place on monthly basis from Rs.5 to Rs.20 per household/premises. Different buckets etc have been distributed for segregation at source of garbage at the respective households. The project has also used to develop the hand carts for collection, segregation of the waste. The segregated waste is now being processed into organic manure through vermin composting. 7.5 tons of garbage is being collected from the households, temples and the market areas. Most of the wet waste is being composted. 12 Sheds and 90 vermin composting units have been created with a total recycling facility of 4050 cft and the wet waste is recycled. Nearly 6-8 cycles are used in a year and a total of 108 MTs of waste is recycled per annum. Nearly 2-3 MTs segregated waste is collected and further segregated at the common dumps and then a total of nearly 900 MTs waste is collected per annum and nearly 20 % is recycled. The compost has resulted into raising nearly 6000 mango trees, 18 hectares of sugarcane, 3 hectares of banana, 34 hectares of amla and 26 hectares of tomatoes and vegetables. The MC and other related stakeholders are coming forward in sharing costs and responsibilities in the program. The NGO has been able to get a sizeable co-financing of Rs.710,000/- as bins, printed material and also the local vehicles plying in the areas. The working conditions both at the common dump sites and of the rag pickers have improved vastly through the trainings and exposure visits. A paper recycling unit is being set up through the women groups and also a plastic recycling unit is being set up to process the segregated paper and plastic wastes. 16 SHGs have been set up in the area and they have saved more than Rs.196,000 as savings and we have linked two groups to bank loans of Rs.95,000.