The Indian Express               28.06.2013

Waste-to-energy plants: BMC seeks EoI from firms

The initiative is part of the corporation’s attempt to
ease pressure off the city’s two landfills at Deonar and Mulund, which
have exceeded capacity as the appointed contractors refuse to process
the collecting waste. The city generates nearly 6,500 metric tonnes of
municipal solid waste and 2,000-2,500 metric tonnes of construction
waste (debris and silt) daily.

“As our landfill contractors have not been processing the waste owing
to various reasons, this project should considerably ease the problem
of mounting garbage and silt. We will issue an EOI in a week or so. The
Jindal Group has shown interest and we are expecting a few more
companies to respond to our bid – they should have prior experience in
handling waste-to-energy projects. We are planning these plants at the
city’s transfer stations,” said additional municipal commissioner Mohan
Adtani, in-charge of civic solid waste management department.

As per the revised plan for the project, the corporation
will share the capital expenditure for setting up the plan with the
chosen company.

“In our previous experience of contracting the entire
capital expenditure and work for managing the city’s dumping grounds,
our revenue expenditure — for collecting garbage and tipping fee at the
landfills is considerably high. Thus we have decided that perhaps it is a
better idea to share the capital costs of setting up waste-to-energy
plants. Then our revenue expenditure should reduce in the long run,”
said Adtani.

Jindal Ecopolis is among the companies the BMC expects a response from.