According to the plan, the civic body will construct a unit to produce crude oil from plastic waste and a substation to generate electricity from the waste in the second phase of expansion.

The work will be completed by utilising the funds of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme. Briefing the media, Mayor Mercy Williams said an effective ewaste management system, aquaculture land and a slaughterhouse were also included in the draft report. She said the new facilities would be constructed at the recently acquired 45.3 acres of land adjacent to the existing plant. "Contrary to the existing plant, the new units will be constructed on raised platforms. The Corporation has already held discussions with the Power Grid Corporation for setting up the electricity manufacturing unit," Mercy Williams said.

The crude oil plant will be constructed in line with that of the one at Alathoor, near Chennai. "The plant is likely to help generate one litre of crude oil at a cost of Rs 12," Mercy Williams added. The Mayor said the civic body had come up with the idea of a new slaughterhouse in the wake of various complaints raised against the slaughter house at Kaloor from various quarters. "The construction of a bridge near Rajagiri College and the renovaton of the existing Brahmapuram jetty is also included in the expansion plans," she added. The Corporation will utilise Rs 42 crore for the expansion. The amount has already been sanctioned under the JNNURM scheme for solidwaste management.

The solid waste from Thrikkakkara would also be transported to the Brahmapuram plant for the treatment.

"We have already signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Trikkakakara panchayat in this regard. A total of two tonnes of waste materials are expected to be brought to Brahmpuram from Trikkakkara daily," Mercy Williams said.

The tracking would be done using tools like Global Positioning System (GPS), online data transfer, web and mobile interfaces, to bring an order to city’s garbage.

The GHMC has been monitoring garbage lifting through cell phone in Abids and Khairatabad on an experimental basis and they think the results are encouraging. Officials found photos obtained real-time, whenever garbage bins are being lifted helped in smooth operation of the process. GHMC officials told Express there are about 4,000 dumper bins in the city. At present, the lifting of these bins was being monitored through information given by sanitary supervisors of the concerned areas. Similarly, daily attendance of about 16,000 public health workers is done manually at about 200 locations.

Presently, the manual process is consuming a lot of time and the wireless network is getting choked, hindering regular sanitary review and monitoring.

Therefore, the GHMC is planning to automate the monitoring of dumper bins lifting and attendance of workers using software based GPS technology on mobile phones. The images of dumper bins and workers who attend duty would be captured with date, time, latitude and longitude stamp. Once all the details are gathered, they would put up on GHMC website for public access.

The design, development, deployment, training, and resource costs for the solution is estimated to be Rs 48 lakh per year. The standing committee has given approval for implementation of the project in GHMC limits.