The Hindu 18.05.2013
BMC to draft rules for enforcement of solid waste management project
The Rs. 70 crore project will be taken up in Private Public Participation mode
The Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BMC) would formulate rules for detailed enforcement guidelines for its comprehensive solid waste management project for the city by July next year.
It may be noted that Berhampur would be the first urban centre in Odisha to have a comprehensive solid waste project, which is expected to be operational by that time. Speaking at a workshop related to the project held in the city the Commissioner of the BMC, Ajit Mishra said details of guidelines would be based on ‘Municipal Solid Waste Management and Handling Rules 2000’.
This workshop was organised by the International Financial Corporation (IFC), which is providing technological and tactical support to the BMC for the project. It was attended by Mayor S.S.Mishra, the Deputy Mayor, officials of the BMC, and representatives of the IFC.
This Rs.70 crore worth solid waste management project for the city would be taken up on Private Public Participation (PPP) mode.
Tender process for the project has already started. Last date for submission of tender papers was May 27.
According to the representative of the IFC, six companies have shown interest in the project.
A project evaluation committee headed by the Ganjam district Collector would evaluate the tender papers to select a company which would take up the project.
As per the plans the project was to be ready by July 2014.
The selected private partner would be responsible for primary and secondary collection, transportation, segregation, recycling, treatment, and scientific disposal of waste.
Decommissioning
This company would also be involved in the decommissioning of the existing waste disposal site of the city at Chandania hill. The BMC would however be responsible for street sweeping, bush cutting, deposition of waste at designated secondary collection points, from where the private partner would transport it to disposal site.
Land identified
The BMC has already identified 31.62 acres of land near Mohuda village at distance of 10 km. from the city for the project.
This land would be handed over to the private partner on long term lease. Here the solid waste would be segregated.
The organic waste would be composted, the inert waste would be land filled and recyclable waste would be stored and removed at regular intervals.
The recyclable waste would be sold to interested buyers.
Under this project each household of the city may have to pay Rs. 30 per month for collection of solid waste from their houses.
The BMC had chalked out a communication programme to create awareness regarding the project among the inhabitants of the city.
This communication programme has been named ‘my city, clean city’.
Total waste generated in the city was around 138 TPD and it was expected to increase to 250 TPD in next three decades.
Eighty four per cent of the solid waste of the city was generated from residential areas that included 110 slums, where 30 per cent of the city’s populace lived.
