MC gears up for complete waste clearance at Dadu Majra

Sandeep Rana
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 1

Residents can hope for complete garbage clearance at the Dadu Majra dumping ground as the Municipal Corporation is gearing up to allot the work for disposal of the remaining waste at the site.

The biomining of one part of the garbage dump at Dadu Majra was on, but the remaining part had been left. The civic body has now decided to initiate the work on other part by utilising funds under the Swachh Bharat Mission or the AMRUT.

“We will soon float a tender to clear the remaining about 4.50 lakh metric tonne waste lying at the ground. We will consider plasma technology. The whole waste can be cleared in about four months. We will use funds from the AMRUT or Swachh Bharat Mission,” Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma told Chandigarh Tribune.

Sharma inspected the ongoing work at the site on Thursday. “They have cleared a major part of the garbage from the dumping ground. I have directed them to complete the work by December,” he said.

It was earlier found that the biomining work, which was allotted to a private firm for Rs33 crore in 2019, was only for half of the garbage dump at the site. The company was assigned the task to biomine 5 lakh metric tonne of waste and about 4.50 lakh tonne of waste was left behind. However, the authorities had created an impression that the entire waste would be lifted from the ground.

The MC had taken over the waste processing plant from Jaypee Group last year. It is only processing about 70 metric tonne of waste daily, while the city generates nearly 450 metric tonne of garbage each day. The fresh waste, which is being dumped at the ground, could thus pose a major challenge to the corporation in clearing the ground.

The officials though are hoping to upgrade the processing machinery at the plant to ensure that the fresh waste does not go the ground.