Around
800 mt of waste is being generated per day in the city which contains
around 45 pc of domestic and 13 pc of commercial waste, according to
officials.

Now the GVMC is
currently incurring Rs 20 crore per annum, on waste management and the
proposed project would save around 60-70 per cent of this expenditure.
Until now, the Corporation has been dumping the entire waste, either wet
or dry, at the yard in Kapuluppada without any processing. The GVMC has
no permission for doing so.

As a rule, Municipal Solid
Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2000, are applicable to every
municipal authority responsible for collection, segregation, storage,
transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solids. APPCB
officials confirmed that they had not accorded any permission for
Kapuluppada dumping yard.

“We
have not given permission for the dumping yard at Kapuluppada. But, it
was being used for some years even though officials fail to comply by
the SWM Rules, 2000,” said Senior Environmental Engineer, P Usman Ali
Khan.

The local body has to obtain authorisation from the
State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) for setting up waste processing and
disposal facility including landfills. For many years,  the yard at
Kapuluppada was being used for dumping waste and the new proposal for
setting up zone-wise processing units will also have to comply with some
rules, according to officials.

The
current dumping yard has not complied with the guidelines. It was
surrounded by human habitations within 1,000 metres and is close to the
national highway, said officials.

The Supreme Court of
India had directed the urban local bodies, way back in 2000, to improve
SWM and the GVMC recently made arrangements for disposing the solid
wastes in a scientific way.