Indian Express 22.12.2009
Experts approve Dadumajra plant
Objections still persist as councillors complain no MC official was included in the certification process
After weathering quite a few storms in the MC House, the management of the garbage processing plant at Dadumajra finally submitted the experts’ certification about the functioning of the plant to the Municipal Corporation last week.
The certification states “the plant is complete in itself and all the equipment which is meant to take care of operations has been installed with very good engineering. The plants and machinery installed are of good quality and of high standards and meet the requirements of the processing plant”.
But controversy still dogs JP Associates as the civic body has raised objections on the certification as no MC official was included in the process. Also, no copy of the MoU or detailed project report was provided to the experts, allege the councillors.
In June, the Municipal Corporation had directed JP Associates “to get the plant certified from an agency empanelled with the Union Government as to whether it is properly functional or not”. After this the company submitted a number of certificates, which were rejected by the MC as it was felt that the certifiers were not competent enough.
In November, the civic body supplied a list of five experts to the company and asked it to select three to get a certification about the functioning of the plant. The list had also been approved by the Central government. The three selected experts were Dr P D Grover, former professor of IIT Delhi, Dr Surendra Kumar, professor of Department of Chemical Engineering of IIT Roorkee, and Manager of IL&FS Energy Development Company Ltd, Deepak Gupta.
The certificate was submitted on December 16 during a hearing pertaining to the showcause notice issued against the management in April.
Earlier inquiry reports submitted in the MC House had pointed out discrepancies between what was promised in the DPR and the machinery finally installed. Another anomaly pointed out was that the certification does not mention how much garbage was being processed in the plant or what is the quantity of the end product produced.
Councillor Chander Mukhi Sharma said: “The experts should have been provided with a copy of the MoU and the DPR. The certification has been done without any documents being shown. All details should have been taken into consideration.”
