The Hindu 14.09.2010
PPP model for solid waste management
Staff Reporter
BANGALORE: The city's solid waste management could get a fresh lease of life if the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike's proposal to embrace the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model is implemented.
The plan, which is awaiting green signal from the Government, will put the city in the same league as Uttar Pradesh and Puducherry, where the PPP model is operational for solid waste management. A 13-member committee has been set up by the State Government to explore options of implementing the model.
Under the system, the civic body will hand over the responsibility of garbage collection and dumping to contractors. Neither will any fee be paid by the palike nor will it expect a share of the profit of the contractor.
Explaining the procedure of implementing the proposal, Rangaraj, Chief Engineer of solid waste management, said here on Monday that tenders would be floated for collection of garbage once the contractors were finalised. He said that the four dumping yards in the city — Mandur, Mavallipura, Doddaballapura and Kumbalgod — were being used to experiment with ways to convert garbage to produce energy or make fertilizer.
Mr. Rangaraj said in the new system, the place for dumping would be given by the BBMP without chargign processing fee or expecting rent for the property from contractors.
