Ahmedabad looks for inspiration from BMC

While all other metros are trying to emulate Ahmedabad’s Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), the city’s civic body seems enamoured with Mumbai’s solid waste management system.

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has decided to adopt Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) scientific land-filling of the Gorai dumping ground for its own solid waste landfill site — Pirana.

Officials from Ahmedabad were in Mumbai recently to visit the Gorai dumping ground which is now a green zone. The project even generates methane gas, earning the civic body revenue in lieu of carbon credit.

The AMC wants to increase the city’s green cover and has decided to close the landfill site and extract methane with technical help from the Mumbai-based consultants who helped on the BMC project.

AMC commissioner IP Gautam, recently met additional municipal commissioner RA Rajeev in Delhi and expressed a desire to borrow BMC’s technology for closing down its dumping ground.
On Tuesday, a team of officers from AMC met Rajeev to discuss the issue. “The scientific closure will translate into carbon credits due to a clean environment,” an officer from the team said. “Exotic trees will be planted. These will be finalised sometime soon,” he said.

Rajeev said, “The BMC is ready to help the AMC with the project that will help keep the environment clean. If civic bodies from other states want to borrow our solid waste management idea, it is a matter of great pride for us,” he added.