On tech hunt, MC team visits Delhi waste processing plants

Sandeep Rana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 16

Mayor, councillors and officials of the local MC team today visited two waste-to-energy processing plants in Delhi.

The MC is visiting different processing plants to finalise the technology for its own processing plant in Sector 25. At present, city’s plant is being run by the MC itself with old machines and processing is way too less.

Since the civic body has planned to hire an agency with new technology, it is exploring and inspecting different plants in neighbouring states. In the coming days, it has also planned a visit to a plant in Ambala.

Councillor Shakti Prakash Devshali, who was part of the team that visited the plant today, said: “We have checked the waste-to-energy plants in Delhi. Both are efficiently generating electricity from garbage. One plant is processing around 2,700 metric tonnes of waste per day while the other is processing 2,000 metric tonnes of waste a day.”

Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma said: “The technology was good. One firm is generating 25 mega watt electricity per day and the other 23 mega watt a day.”

It was one year ago that the MC took over the plant from Jaypee Group, but it is yet to decide on the technology to be used at the plant. Following this, the tendering process to hire a firm and putting up machinery to process the garbage will also take time.

Meanwhile, those around near the dumping ground are living in hell-like conditions. As per the IIT-Roorkee report, the existing plant can at best handle 60 to 65 TPD (tonne per day) waste. The city produces about 450 tonnes of waste per day. The unprocessed waste is being thrown at the dumping ground causing trouble to residents.

Area councillors failed to visit Delhi plants

Local councillor Farmila and councillor Rajesh Kalia, who have been creating hue and cry over the issue of waste processing, failed to visit the plants. Both had earlier agreed to pay a visit to the plants. Farmila said she had pain in her legs so she couldn’t go.

Also, councillors Arun Sood, Devinder Singh Babla and Davesh Moudgil, who had also agreed to go, did not turn up citing one or the other reason.

Shakti said other than the Mayor, Joint Commissioner Sorabh Arora, councillors Bharat Kumar, Jagtar Singh, Chandrawati Shukla, Shipra Bansal, Haji Mohd. Khurshid Ali and Hardeep Singh visited the Delhi plants.

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