The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has dumped its grand plans of having a common landfill site at Taloja which would have accommodated the solid and electronic waste of the city as well as the surrounding municipalities for the next 46 years.
The proposed sanitary landfill and e-waste plant was meant to have taken care of all waste generated by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) up to the year 2060. The four municipal corporations of Thane, Kalyan-Dombivali, Ulhasnagar and Bhiwandi-Nizampur, and two municipal councils of Ambernath and Kulgaon-Badlapur were to dump their refuse in this landfill site.
As per the plans finalised by the development authority, the e-waste facility was to come up over four hectares for scientific disposal of waste generated in Mumbai and MMR. Annually, the state generates around 20,000 tonnes of e-waste, out of which Mumbai alone contributes 11,000 tonnes. The regional solid waste management project that was to come up over 117 hectares was expected to clear around 2,000 metric tonnes of garbage daily. The cost of the project was Rs 1,000 crore and Rs 8 crore for solid waste management and e-waste facilities respectively.
On August 29, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan gave his consent to the scrapping of the contract with Hyderabad-based Ramky Infrastructure, appointed for setting up the facility and operate at the site. The agency was reportedly blacklisted by some civic bodies of India.
Moreover, according to MMRDA sources, the civic bodies which had initially agreed to transfer their waste to Taloja later backtracked, objecting to the tipping fee of Rs 819 per tonne.
This was the latest in a line of big-ticket projects that have been scrapped by the MMRDA, namely funicular railway (Rs 100 crore) at Matheran, heliport facility (Rs 175 crore) in Mumbai, innovation park (Rs 10,000 crore), mangrove park at Gorai (Rs 100 crore), power generation project, Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd metro rail, etc.
Another big-ticket project shelved
The landfill site was meant to accommodate solid and electronic waste generated by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR)
It was to come up over 117 hectares and expected to clear around 2,000 metric tonnes of garbage daily.
The cost of the project was Rs 1,000 crore and Rs 8 crore for solid waste management and e-waste facilities respectively
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