The Hindu 21.07.2016
Municipalities to market manure
Good deal:Municipal Administration Department officials have signed an
agreement with MFL and Essel Infraprojects for marketing manure.— Photo:
G.Krishnaswamy
As part of giving a fillip to Union Government’s Swachh
Bharat programme, the Municipal Administration department has entered
into a tripartite agreement with Madras Fertilizers Limited and Essel
Infraprojects Limited for selling manure produced from its
waste-to-energy centres in various places.
At
Tambaram Municipality, Municipal Engineer V. Murugesan, MFL’s General
Manager (Marketing) T. Paul Premkumar and Essel’s Assistant General
Manager-MSW Ramakrishna Sudhakar signed a pact for sale of manure
procured from Venkatamangalam. Similarly, Pallavaram municipal
commissioner K Sivakumar signed the pact on Wednesday.
Essel’s
Pallavapuram and Tambaram MSW Private Limited handles about 220 tonnes
of manure from Pallavaram, Tambaram, Sembakkam and Pammal
municipalities.
Mr. Premkumar said that Rs. 1,500 per
tonne was being allowed as Market Development Assistance by the Union
Government, which the company was willing to share with farmers. The
manure collected from Venkatamangalam would be made available for the
farmers from Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Vellore, and Tiruvannamalai
districts. “Market development assistance would lower thee MRP of city
compost for farmers,” said official sources.
