Expand capacity of construction waste plant: UT to Chandigarh MC

Dushyant Singh Pundir
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 9

For better use of recycled construction waste, UT Adviser Dharam Pal has directed the Municipal Corporation (MC) to expand the capacity of the construction and demolition (C&D) waste plant at the Industrial Area, Phase I.

The Adviser today visited various big projects of the MC, including the C&D waste plant, material recovery facility at 3 BRD and legacy mining and garbage processing plant at Dadu Majra. The Adviser was accompanied by MC Commissioner KK Yadav and other senior officials of the civic body.

“Right now, we are not in a position to process the entire C&D waste generated in the city,” he said and asked the Commissioner to enhance the capacity of the plant to accept C&D waste from the city outskirts also.

The Adviser said nearly 80 per cent waste of the city was being segregated and he had directed the Commissioner to get the remaining 20 per cent waste segregated too.

The segregated waste is processed at the Dadu Majra plant, which is being run on old technology. Due to this, the entire waste of the city could not be processed.

The Adviser said he learnt that a new technology had been finalised but somehow was pending with the MC House. He directed the Commissioner to decide the issue in three months or the Administration would have to intervene.