Setting up of waste processing plant: Three firms fail to quality, Chandigarh civic body floats short-term tender

Chandigarh, February 4

The city MC has floated a fresh short-term tender after three companies failed to qualify in the technical bid for setting up a new waste processing plant at Dadu Majra.

The bid will open on February 9. It will then be known as to how many agencies have shown interest. Following this, financial and technical evaluation will be done.

The Request for Proposal, which was floated on June 9, for hiring an agency continues to face delays. The last date for sending entries has been once again pushed further.

The corporation had floated the RFP for the selection of a concessionaire for the establishment of an integrated waste processing plant of 550 TPD capacity along with operation and maintenance of existing three garbage transfer stations for 17 years (two years for plant construction, 15 years for operations and maintenance) following the House’s approval.

The plant is to be constructed on a design, finance, own, operate and transfer basis. The agency has to construct the plant within two years on a 15-acre site at Dadu Majra. Land measuring 20 acres has recently been reclaimed through bioremediation and would be utilised for the setting up of the plant.

As per the technology recommended by NEERI, wet waste is to be processed to produce bio-CNG and dry waste to produce RDF, which will be supplied to cement plants as fuel.

In October last year, the UT Administrator laid the foundation stone of a temporary wet waste processing plant at Dadu Majra as a stopgap arrangement. This facility is said to be ensuring 100 per cent wet waste processing.