The Hindu 30.01.2014
Private company promises to process municipal waste regularly
Situation expected to be back to normal in 45 days
The private company in Chettichavadi has agreed to run the plant regularly and process the 6,000 metric tonne accumulated waste and normalise the functioning of the plant within 45 days.
At a meeting held at the corporation office in the evening, an agreement was reached by which the corporation cleared the electricity bill of Rs. 5 lakh of the company that it would collect from the company later.Officials said that the company plant would start functioning from the midnight of Wednesday and process the accumulated garbage.
The meeting that was held for over four hours was attended by Mayor S. Soundappan, Commissioner M. Ashokan, engineers, Nadeem Furniturewala, Managing Director, Salem City Integrated Waste Management Private Limited and other officials.
Earlier, a meeting was conducted by Salem Revenue Divisional Officer R. Satheesh at the Collectorate, at which the company promised that the accumulated municipal solid waste, both inside and outside the plant, would be processed within 45 days and thereafter the plant would function normally.
The company also clarified that the installed machines were not obsolete and could process more than 300 metric tonnes every day. Corporation engineers laid down conditions that the plant should be run daily and landfill site should be used for inert materials only when the plant is undertaking maintenance work which should be completed within 24 hours.
They warned that functioning of the plant should not be hindered due to non-availability of earthmovers for unloading garbage.