Project Management For Monitoring Food Wastage In Hyderabad, India

Main Body

Project management is an approach used by an entity to manage all the activities of a project to accomplish the desired aims and targets in fewer periods. Three pillars of the project management help in attaining project success by considering all internal and external considerations in a project are cost, time and quality of a project. It is regarded as a technique in which knowledge and skills of a project manager are utilized to transform all negative aspects into a positive one to achieve the final outcome of a project (Barik & Paul, 2017). Optimum utilization approach is used by an individual in which lesser inputs used by the firm to generate higher outcomes in a total duration of a project.  

This report focuses on two parts in which initial part of the assignment emphasizes on various aspects such as project management description and all its activities. This includes explaining the whole process of project management stressing on initiation, planning, investigating, analysis, implementation and controlling of a project. Objectives of project act as a mission that helps an individual to complete all their aim on time to satisfy its clients. 

Project Aim

To monitor food wastage and reuse of waste material in Hyderabad, India

• To review the process of reduction of food wastage in weddings
• To limit the guest who attends weddings in Hyderabad
• To re-use the food by adopting various methods
• To help and needy and poor people in Hyderabad by supplying excess foods
• To eliminate all the issues and problems faced by local residents of Hyderabad due to dumping of waste in water and near residential areas.

Above project, objectives are related to various themes that improve the current structure of the society as this is related to the social development (Bhandari, 2017). Process review of waste reduction is one of the objectives which an individual expects to implement a waste management system in which wastage of food will be resolved for forever. Innovative technology is used to deal with the problem which aware people all over the world to inspire the action taken during the project.

Limiting guest in the wedding is a legal policy that abides by all the society members to avoid legal consequences in the future. It promotes social equality by deciding a standard number of wedding guests in both small budget and higher budget weddings to avoid wastage of food (Filimonau & Gherbin, 2017). The middle class and poor people can arrange their wedding parties without pretending to be rich in front of their guests.

Food can be re-used by recycling by using in growing plants in the home as a kitchen garden. Waste is transformed into useful objects to reduce the burden of protecting palaces from dumping of waste.

Food supply by various NGO to protect the dumping of food in residential areas by packing the food in disposables and deliver in the night is generally called ass night angels.

Dumping of waste can be avoided by keeping food box near the event halls and residential so that whoever people have excess food in their homes, wedding and any other event can put the food in this box without dumping outside.

Project Purpose

The aim of the current project is to evaluate the current situations in Hyderabad as the focus of a project lies on monitoring the wastage of food during weddings by reusing the waste products. Project activities focus on resolving the issues by taking opinions of who visits the wedding parties on the issue of food wastage in weddings and parties in Hyderabad. Weddings can be observed by some of the team members as a guest to analyze the situations deeply (Tsang & Yung, 2017). The special focus of this project is categories in two ways such as higher cost weddings and lower costs weddings to compare both the results.

Initiation

On initial level futures risks identify the risks evaluators to continue their project research in a particular direction to get good results out of a project. Risks ascertain by the management helps in aligning with the strategic objectives of a project management plan of an entity. The entire study is based on the wastage of foods in wedding and parties as this will affect all the citizens of Hyderabad as they live in contaminated water.

In a heavy budget wedding, there are lots of food variety available in an event which is not venue consumed by most of the guest ranging from vegetarian to non-vegetarian dishes. On the other side of image poor child eating a piece of bread as this shows the starving of a child. Instead of wasting the food these foods will supply to the slum area in Hyderabad to facilitate all the needs of poor people (Marais, Smit, Koen & Lötze, 2017). Reducing the variety of food dishes helps in avoiding food in the parties as only 60% of the guest attend wedding parties and rest 40% did not attend the event that results in excess food.

Project goals

• To review the  reduction of food wastage in weddings
• To limit the guest who attends weddings in Hyderabad
• To re-use the food by adopting various methods
• To help and needy and poor people in Hyderabad by supplying excess foods
• To eliminate all the issues and problems faced by local residents of Hyderabad due to dumping of waste in water and near residential areas.

Success Criteria

• Views and opinions of guest who attended weddings
• Views of catering firms and event management companies
• Missions of projects
• Government support
• Initiatives of NGO and private individual on resolving this issue
• Quality management of entire project
• Communication with society members
• Evaluating news articles and internet blogs on food wastage

Risks and Obstacles

• Contradictory views of wedding guests
• Rich people influence legal authorities not to take any action against them
• Poor communication between project team members
• No follow up by the personnel after the implementation of a project

Activity	Way of doing work	Responsibility delegation	Time (In days)	Costs involved (INR)	Work standard
Problem identification	Observing the issue helps in ascertaining various traits of a problem	Project manager	3 days	1000	Benchmarks
Defining the problem	Problem statement	Supervisors	4 days	2500	Clearly defining the problem
Evaluation of problem	Setting criteria’s to test the problem	Technical team	6 days	600	Criteria are related to the nature of business.
Analysing alternatives of the problem	Using analytical and decision making skills	Technical team	5 days	1500	Brainstorming
Market research	Primary research	Researcher	10 days	5000	Defined ways of primary research set by an entity
Appointing qualified personnel	Surveyor	Human resource manager	7 days	6000	HR manager select personnel according to nature of project.
Data collection	Primary and secondary data	Surveyor	15 days	4000	Questionnaires and interview method used to collect reliable data
Creating project objectives	Mission statement	Project manager	8 days	2000	Missions depicts the performance of an entity
Designing plan	Project management plan	Supervisors	4 days	2000	Ways of plan mentioned by the manager
Implementation	Launching practices or policies	Middle level managers	20 days	15000	Judging success of similar project
Monitoring and control	Taking follow up after the execution	Top management	10 days	10000	Feedback of the client
Project closure	Project checklist	Middle level mangers	6 days	2000	Progress of all the activities

It includes set of rules and the regulations prepare by a project manager especially according to a nature of a project to be followed by all individuals (Cameron & Green, 2015). There are a various set of rules for operating a team effectively is given as below:

• Keeping confidentiality of information in a project
• Focuses on food wastage during weddings and not emphasizes any other waste
• Personnel should be present during business hours in premises or at field work
• Compensation of the workforce depends on their performance in a project

Resource allocation shows the hidden skills and talent of a project manager as optimum utilization of resources is adopted by them by using lesser input in generating higher outcomes (Kerzner, 2013). In the current project of food wastage reduction and reuse of the same during weddings of Hyderabad, India. Skills of personnel are used to allocate resources as project personnel includes event management and catering candidates to get reliable data according to the needs and expectations of an individual. 

Controlling and monitoring project is based on one of the projects in Melbourne where rubbish comes from food and beverage industry has managed. In Melbourne, Australia, wastage of food is reduced by 90% by using innovative way of recycling the wastage of food to facilitate all the society members and the government. There is 25 million rubbish produce every year that imposes pressure on the city to deal with the issue. The contribution in the production of this much food wastes by 90 food and beverage businesses (Stewart, 2016). Fertilizing land is the greatest solution introduced by the city of Melbourne in which waste dumped in landfills is converted into fertilizers in the Degraves Street every week in form of parks and gardens all over the city. A cost incurred by recycling of food waste program is around $300000 annually that creates employment to seven workers in this process. This problem benefits the city Melbourne socially as it avoids the wastage souse and also provides employment to the city workers. Eco Guardians is located in Degraves Street that helps in extracting essential parts out of food waste to create eco gardens in various apartments in Melbourne

Planning

With the help of above project in Melbourne based on the similar issue of food waste is resolved by recycling the food is followed in overcoming the problem in Hyderabad (Truschke, 2017). In the above problem, food is recycled by transforming them into gardens and parks near big apartments with open space to increase the fertility of the land. But in Hyderabad, the same issue will resolve by following above technique along with several other techniques in dealing with the similar issue.

In Hyderabad, gardens, and park is created near the BANJARA HILLS one of the residential areas of Hyderabad which has big apartments and top notch hotels (Residential areas in Hyderabad, 2017). This location is selected as heavy budget weddings are organized in the top hotels that dump waste on the roads to create complexity for the residential area people. Open grounds near the society and villas are converting into gardens by utilizing the waste. 

Bio gas plant can be created in using wet food waste that helps in saving electricity in the home (Tripathy, 2017). This plant is established in slum areas where electricity is the biggest problem in their survival as this facility is offered to them in free of costs.  In this approach, waste can be collected by slum people to generate more electricity for them which, in turn, decrease wastage of food. This plant is created in INDIRAMMA NAGAR slum area in Hyderabad to facilitate all the needs of people.

Table 1 Project monitoring

Solution	Area name	People lived	Costs(INR)	Funding
Gardens and parks	BANJARA HILLS	20 thousand	200000	Owners of big apartments
Bio gas plant	INDIRAMMA NAGAR	6.2 lac	Ordinal costs = 40 lac -Subsidy 8 lac = 32 lac	Donation and NGO help

This is the last phase of a project in which success and failure of a project communicate to the end users of the project who get benefit out of the project (Roustaie & Orouji, 2017). The project solution has implemented by adopting two methods such as gardens and parks out of waste and bio gas plant. These two solutions provide benefit to slum people and residential areas people.

Table 2 Communication plan

Deliverables	Detail	Delivery mode	Frequency	Owner	Client
Feeding needy people	Excess food of wedding is supply to all the people in need in Hyderabad	Through NGO who search people in need	Daily	Project manager	Poor people
Social policy launch	To regulate food wastage in weddings one policy will launch	Government order	Quarterly	Project manager and middle manager	Society members
Introduce new practices	Waste can be reduced and  reuse by introducing innovative practices to deal with the issue	Press conference	As per the problem	Technical team	Slum people, society members and local and state government

Table 3 Risk register

Risk	Consequences	Likelihood	Risk score (out of 10)
Contradictory views of wedding guests	Depicts fluctuating facts in a research	High	8
Lack of government support	Poor implementation of solution of a project	Moderate	6
Appointment of candidates from event management firms and catering department	Fake data collected by them to protect their firm’s identity	Moderate	5

Conclusion

It can be articulate from the above project that shows the implementation of food wastage project in Hyderabad by taking ideas of the similar issue project in Melbourne. Food waste is converted into gardens and eco parks to deal with the issue in Melbourne has executed in Hyderabad in BANJARA HILLS. Along with this solution, bio gas plant has also established in INDIRAMMA NAGAR slum area o the same state to transform all the food waste in the generation of the electricity.

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