Solid waste management facility in Baddi area soon

Ambika Sharma

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Tribune News Service

Solan, April 10

The Baddi Barotiwala Nalagarh Development Authority (BBNDA) will soon sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Mumbai-based Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for setting up an integrated solid waste management facility at Kenduwal in the Baddi industrial area.

Rajiv Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, BBNDA, said the facility would be set up using Centre’s NISARGRUNA technology, a waste management technology, and eight months would be granted to accomplish the task.

While both agencies will supervise the work, the BBNDA will make available a minimum area of 4,000 sq m for the construction of the facility, installation and operation. A concrete approach road will also be provided by the authority for the plant.

The BBNDA will be entrusted with the task of transporting the waste on a daily basis from the generation point to the plant site. Segregated waste of 5 metric tonne will be processed in the facility and the segregated non-biodegradable waste will be suitably disposed in a temporary dumping facility, which the authority would utilise till the dry waste management becomes operational. Recycling of waste would be given priority till the dry waste management is installed as per the terms of the memorandum.

The fertiliser and gas generated by the facility will be utilised by the authority for electricity generation and the fertiliser can be sold to an external agency. The authority can sell the electricity to the government or any other agency.

The by-product of the plastic waste will also be sold by the authority to an appropriate authority.

The authority, which is spread across 41 panchayats, is the first urban body to adopt this scientific technology in this industrial belt. It will help putting in place a clean technology for waste disposal.

The Principal Secretary, Industries, has directed the authority to ensure the financial viability of the project. He said the law department had accorded its clearance for it.