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Item ASSESSMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES IN MOVING TOWARDS INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (A study of Rampur Municipality, Palpa)(I.O.E. Pulchowk Campus, 2022-09) Pandey, RupeshGrowing urbanization and increasing trend of mass migration of population ends up in additional solid waste generation in populated area, turning the cities terribly dirty and insanitary. The matter of solid waste management remains unsolved owing to lack of applicable technical data, lack of participation and lack of resources. However, it desires a scientific handling of the waste and should seem terribly sophisticated till a well manage system is established. Thus this study has been done for the purpose of identification and categorization of solid waste in Rampur municipality, its environmental consequences and to get the existing solid waste management system and recommend the pros and cons of it and also to recommend the appropriate management system. The study was carried out in 75 houses having a small family size like a member of five (5) to seven (7) in Rampur municipality. For the research field visits and desk studies for data collection were made through questionnaire survey, key informant survey and visits to the various households and the dumping sites were made. From the analysis, the composition of the waste are found as follow, organic waste-65%, Plastic-14% Paper-5%, Glass-6%, rubbers-4%, Hazardous-2%, Other-4%. The study has found that the average per capita per day waste of the study area to be 0.022 Kg/Person/Day. Average waste generation per person per day in municipality is found to be 0.08 kg, total waste generated in study area per day is 435kg