Prepare plan to remove legacy waste, Adviser tells civic body

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 10

UT Adviser Dharam Pal has directed the Municipal Corporation (MC) to prepare a plan to completely clear the legacy waste from the dumping ground in Dadu Majra. Unprocessed waste from the waste processing plant is thrown at the dumping ground.

MC Commissioner KK Yadav has been asked to prepare a plan to clear the rest of the waste from the Dadu Majra dumping site, stated the Adviser during a visit to the site yesterday.

An MC official said they were planning to allot the work for disposal of the remaining waste at the site.

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

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. 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.

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 site.

Officials hope to upgrade the processing machinery at the plant to ensure that fresh waste does not end up at the ground.

Notably, the mining of legacy waste and recovery of land on the oldest dumping zone was inaugurated on December 20, 2019, by UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore.

It is learnt that the MC is considering the use of plasma technology to clear the waste and the timeline for the entire project can be four to five months.