Cluster-based solid waste management projects to come up in Haryana

Nitish Sharma

Tribune News Service

Ambala, September 24

To deal with solid waste, cluster-based integrated solid waste management projects are set to come up for the Ambala-Yamunanagar and Karnal-Kaithal-Thanesar clusters.

While the Ambala-Yamunanagar cluster will cover six urban local bodies (ULBs), including Ambala, Yamunanagar, Radaur, Sadhaura, Barara, and Naraingarh, the Karnal-Kaithal-Thanesar (of Kurukshetra) cluster will cover 15 ULBs, including Karnal, Indri, Nilokheri, Taraori, Gharaunda, Nissing, Assandh, Thanesar, Shahabad, Ladwa, Kaithal, Rajound, Kalayat, Cheeka and Pundri.

A pre-bid meeting of the tender was held. Its technical qualification bids will be opened on October 1 and then the financial bid will be opened. A senior official said it was an open technology tender in which the company would install waste to energy or waste to compost plants.

The estimated costs of the waste to energy plant and waste to compost plus refuse derived fuel (RDF) project for the Ambala-Yamunanagar cluster will be Rs 280 crore and Rs 175 crore, respectively, while the cost for waste to energy and waste to compost project for Karnal-Kaithal-Thanesar cluster will be Rs 215 crore and Rs 122.5 crore, respectively. The tenure of the project is 22 years.

The Executive Engineer, Ambala City Municipal Corporation, Raman said, “It is a cluster-based tender in which the agency will carry out door-to-door garbage collection, segregation and then treatment of the entire collected garbage in a scientific manner. The agency will choose the technology. If it goes for waste to energy plant then the agency will get a period of two years to set up the plant, and if it goes for waste to compost plants then it will get a period of one year. The agency will be able to sell the end products.”

“The project will also help in compliance with NGT guidelines. The land will be provided by the government on lease and the machinery will be installed by the agency. In Ambala, the plant will be set up at Patvi plant where the bio-remediation of legacy waste is being done and over 50 per cent work has been already completed” he added.

The Commissioner, Ambala City Municipal Corporation, Dhirendra Khadgata said “It is an integrated solid waste management project for collection, transportation, processing and disposal of waste on the PPP mode. In this tender, the agency will be given the choice of installing waste to energy or waste to compost plants for the management of the solid waste.”