Civic body launches project worth Rs 53 cr to dispose of fresh waste
Working under the comprehensive action plan to improve solid waste management in the city, the Municipal Corporation (MC) on Saturday launched a major project worth over Rs 53 crore to dispose of around 700 metric tonnes of fresh waste generated in the city on a daily basis.
Working under the guidance of MC Commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal, 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 dumpsite of the civic body on the Tajpur road and bio-remediation of over 2 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste at the Jainpur site.
Now, this third major project has been launched for disposing of around 700 metric tonnes of fresh waste generated in the city on a daily basis.
The MC Commissioner said around 1,100 metric tonnes of garbage was generated in the city on a daily basis. The civic body has already signed an MoU with a Chennai-based firm in the past for turning 400 metric tonnes of the waste into green charcoal. Now, the civic body has, on Saturday, launched a project worth over Rs 53 crore to treat and dispose of remaining 700 metric tonnes of fresh waste. This contract for treating 700 metric tonnes of waste has been allotted for three years to Greentech Environ Management Private Limited.
The civic body would be providing 6 acres to the contractor at the Jamalpur dumpsite and the contractor will establish the plant for disposing of the waste at the said site in two months.
Dachalwal said the civic body had already launched the project for disposing of the remaining over 19 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste at the Jamalpur main dumpsite of the MC. ‘Heaps of trash’ would be removed from the dumpsite and around 41 acres of the MC land would be freed after bio-remediation of the legacy waste. The site would then be used for effective solid waste management in future.
He said now, projects worth around Rs 130 crore had been launched for improving solid waste management in the city.
He said the civic body was taking all necessary steps to improve solid waste management in the city but the goal could not be achieved without active support of residents. Dachalwal appealed to the residents to hand over segregated dry and wet household waste to garbage collectors and stop dumping waste at open spaces/vacant plots.
Central MLA opens projects worth over Rs 74 lakh
For ensuring potable water supply to residents, Ludhiana Central MLA Ashok Parashar Pappi inaugurated projects worth over Rs 74 lakh in different areas of the Ludhiana Central constituency on Saturday.
These include a project to lay water sewer lines from the Sundar Nagar puli till the Madhopuri puli (Ward 83) alongside the Buddha Nullah at a cost of around Rs 37.37 lakh.
Further, he kick-started projects to install new tube wells in Bangroo mohalla (Ward 84) and Ranjit park area (Ward 81). Tube wells would be installed in both these areas at a cost of around Rs 12.50 lakh each.
The MLA also inaugurated newly installed 25hp tube well in Harcharan Nagar (Ward 81) at a cost of around Rs 12.50 lakh.
Parashar said projects worth crores had been completed in the Central constituency in the past and he had inaugurated projects worth around Rs 5.67 crore on Friday.
