Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation to sign pact with 2 private firms

BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will sign an agreement with two private companies on Monday to take up bio-mining work at Daruthenga, the city’s waste dump yard, in the first such initiative in the state.
The two private firms have been asked to deposit Rs 3 crore as security.
“The work will start in January next year. After the security deposit is received, the BMC will give the go-ahead to take up the work at the site. While household waste once separated will be processed for making on-site compost, the hard materials such as metals and plastic will be extracted for recycling. The government will spend Rs 100 crore on the project,” BMC deputy commissioner (sanitation) Suvendu Sahu said.
Bio-mining involves the segregation and processing of waste at the source itself and subsequent reshaping of land.
The project had been accorded cabinet approval in November. The bio-mining work was entrusted to the two firms through a tender. After cabinet approval, the work order was issued.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had asked the civic bodies to clear legacy (old) waste, following which the Centre had issued a similar direction citing the NGT order.
The BMC has been dumping waste at Daruthenga since 2008. But stiff protest from local residents forced the civic body to move out of Daruthenga gradually. It has also started transporting waste to the micro composting centres, which convert waste into compost.
At present, BMC is able to divert about 30% of 600 metric tonnes of waste the city generates daily to the MCCs, while the remaining is still being sent to Daruthenga.
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