No need for solid waste management site, says city-based industrialist

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 29

Though politicians and officials of the Local Bodies Department have been endlessly trying to resolve the the issue of getting a suitable chunk of land for setting up a solid waste management plan, a city-based industrialist has come up with an idea which does not have any requirement of the sort.

Ajay Palta, owner of Palta Engineering Works, based at the Focal Point here, claims to have designed a machinery which he has named ‘Xaper’, which does all works, including storage, drying, segregating and processing of the solid waste with a capacity of 10 tonnes a day. Coming at a one-time cost of Rs 45 lakh, Palta claims that 30 such machines could clean up the entire city within 24 hours with no additional cost of land purchase.

Palta, who has one such machine which he has evolved since the past few years of effort, showed the demonstration of compost-making by the machine working after lifting waste from a cluster of a few nearby dumping sites.

“This compost can be easily sold right at the site to residents, park and garden developers in the area. Even the concrete waste which will get separated can be given out to residents doing construction for land filling purpose. The recyclable waste can be passed over to the scrap dealers in the area. The only requirement will be to have a separate unit for for making Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) and to collect the segregated material for it,” said the businessman who claims to have sent his proposal even for a patent.

Palta says that he had planned to send his proposal to the officials concerned, including Municipal Corporation Commissioners, Mayors and even politicians, including Congress MLA Pargat Singh and Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, for deliberation and demonstration of his novel idea.