To
end the woes of thousands of people living in the residential colonies
around the vast municipal solid waste (MSW) dump yard in Ajith Singh
Nagar, the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation is finally gearing up to
transform the place into a public park.

The site adjoining the
colonies of Ajith Singh Nagar, Santhi Nagar and Vambey Colony has become
a hindrance to the local development besides troubling dwellers in
various ways since 2007. It also has an abandoned power generation plant
that failed to sustain.

The municipal corporation has recently
called on national level companies to come up with proposals to
remediate the site through the bio-mining process under design, build
and operate model.

The Municipal Commissioner in 2016 announced
that the dumping yard site would be turned into a park as per the
instructions of the CM and with the cooperation of the Central
government.

The VMC took up the project as part of the vision of
the Central and the State governments for Swachh cities intending to
take up modern and scientific methods of solid waste management and
disposal. In two years, the VMC wants to excavate all the unprocessed
solid waste using advanced equipment and retrieve compostable and
recyclable material by segregating, sorting, storing and finally selling
it.

The civic body expects at least 90% reclamation of the site
from which generation of reusable and recoverable material is possible.

A pre-bid meeting will be held on Wednesday (Aug 16) to receive queries regarding the project.

The VMC will stop receiving the proposals on August 30 and open them on September 1.