December 7: Municipal Corporation (MC), on Saturday, launched a major project worth over Rs 53 crore to dispose off around 700 metric tonnes of fresh waste generated in the city on a daily basis.
According to officials, projects worth around Rs 77 crore have already been launched in the past for bio-remediation of around 19.62 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste at the Jamalpur main dump site of the civic body on Tajpur road and bio-remediation of over 2 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste at Jainpur site.
Now, this third major project has been launched for disposing off around 700 metric tonnes of fresh waste generated in the city on a daily basis, they added.
MC Commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal said that in total around 1100 metric tonnes of garbage is generated in the city on a daily basis. Civic body has already signed an MoU with Chennai based firm in the past for turning 400 metric tonnes of this waste into green charcoal. Now the civic body has, on Saturday, launched project worth over Rs 53 crore to treat and dispose off remaining 700 metric tonnes of fresh waste. This contract for treating 700 metric tonnes of waste has been allotted for three years to M/s Greentech Environ Management Pvt. Ltd.
Civic body would be providing 6 acres of land to the contractor at Jamalpur dump site and the contractor will establish the plant for disposing off the waste at the said site in two months.
He said that the civic body has already launched the project for disposing off the remaining over 19 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste at the Jamalpur main dump site of MC. The ‘heaps of trash’ would be removed from the dump site and around 41 acres of MC land would be freed after bio-remediation of the legacy waste. This site would then be used for effective solid waste management in future.
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