The New Indian Express 13.12.2010
Better sanitation facilities coming up in city
The civic body has prepared a City Sanitation Plan (CSP) and the implementation of its salient features would start right from March 2011.
“The CSP is making good progress. BMC has appointed Credit Rating and Information Services of India Limited (Crisil), a credit rating and policy advisory company belonging to the Standard and Poor group, as a consultancy agency in preparing the CSP”, said Vishal Dev, Commissioner, BMC.
Crisil, with its rich and varied experience in city development plans (CDP), would identify the key gaps in the capital. “It will provide feasible technological options on collection, treatment and disposal of solid wastes generated, sewerage systems and waste water disposal”, Dev added.
He said a permanent state of art solid waste treatment plant would be ready at Bhuasuni by March next. “Currently, the City generates around 450 mt of solid waste and we have a landfill-type disposal now. The treatment is quite rudimentary as only basic chemicals like bleaching powder are being used”, Dev said.
Dilip Routrai, Slum Improvement Officer, BMC, said that currently the civic body spends around ` 4 crore annually on the development works of the city. He admitted that the requirement is very huge. “As BMC has to work under its budgetary constraints, the gap still exists between the amount required and the amount allocated. For this, the body is trying to augment more revenue to go for a hefty rise in development spending in the next fiscal year 2011-12”, added Dilip.
