Civic bodies sign MoU for waste mgt project

The Municipal Corporations of Gurugram (MCG) and Faridabad on Friday signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of Haryana's first Integrated Solid Waste Management Project. This would be the first project in the country bided on Output Based Incentive (OBI) concept of Public Private Partnership model.

The entire project is expected to cost more than Rs 330 crore and land requirement over 28 acres of land with concession period of 22 years has been identified in the Bhandwari region.

MCG Commisoner V Umashankar said, "One of the biggest projects of its kind in the country with integrated solid waste management activities including collection, transportation, processing and disposal of the solid waste along with setting up of waste to energy power plant in due course."

The Bhandwari plant has always been under the watch of environmentalists.

A dumpyard turned waste treatment plant has been lying defunct since 2013 following a fire. Most of the activists have been demanding a waste management solution. Currently serving as landfill/ dumpyard, more than 2000 tonnes of waste from both Gurugram and Faridabad is dumped into it.