The New Indian Express 14.09.2010
PPP model planned to tackle city's solid waste
BANGALORE: State government is planning to adopt the public-private-partnership (PPP) model for solid waste management in the city.The government has set up a 13-member committee to implement the model in managing solid waste.
The technical committee will be set up under the provisions of the Municipal Solid Waste Management (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000.
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will explore the possibility of using the model.
The model is currently being used in states like Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
In these places, the corporations give land to contractors to dump garbage. It does not pay any processing fee or expect any return, rent or profit from the contractor.
“This system could prove more efficient,” said Rangaraj, Chief Engineer (SWM) of the BBMP.
He said tenders would be floated by e-procurement once the government approved the proposal.
He said there were four dumping yards in the city — Mandur, Mavallipura, Doddaballapura and Kumbalgudu — where most of the garbage was dumped and processed.
He said the yards were trying to process garbage to either produce energy or make fertilisers.
He pointed out that in the new proposal, they would explore opportunities to see if the Palike could do it without any cost or processing fees, which is currently being paid to the contractors.
