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‘Wealth out of Waste’ scheme for Coimbatore suburbs also

Saturday, 09 January 2010 01:56 administrator
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The Hindu 09.01.2010

‘Wealth out of Waste’ scheme for Coimbatore suburbs also

K.V. Prasad

Door-to-door sensitisation drive conducted

Photo: Special Arrangement

Eco-friendly move: Vadavalli Town Panchayat President Amirthavalli Shanmughasundaram (second left) checks the weight of recyclable waste. —

COIMBATORE: ITC Limited’s Wealth out of Waste Programme – to buy recyclable waste from the public – is being extended to some of the suburbs to the west and north of the city.

The company is already collecting paper waste, plastic carry bags, paper and cardboard cartons, toothpaste and soaps wrappers from some residential colonies where the programme was launched a year ago. This was extended to Vadavalli Town Panchayat recently.

It will be extended to Perianaickenpalayam on Friday (January 8) and to Thudialur the following day, ITC’s Manager- Materials Feroz Munshi said on Thursday.

Bags to store paper waste and plastic bags have been provided to 2,500 houses. All the 10,000 houses would be covered by January 10.

Town Panchayat President Amirthavalli Shanmugasundaram went on a door-to-door sensitisation drive as part of the launch.

Former President V.M. Shanmughasundaram brought in a sponsor to provide bins to the houses for storing wet waste (from kitchen and garden), Mr. Munshi said.

“People should not mix dry waste, which can fetch money, with the wet waste that can be converted into manure,” he explained. “That is why we provide separate bags to store the paper waste. We buy the waste at Rs.2.50 a kg.”

The company provided a tri-cycle to each cluster of 2,500 houses for collecting the waste.

“We have collected 200 kg to 300 kg of recyclable waste from these houses,” Mr. Munshi said.

Vadavalli generated three tonnes of garbage on an average every day. And, 40 per cent of this was recyclable waste.

Objective

Mr. Munshi said on Thursday that the objective of the programme was to ensure that no paper or plastic waste littered the roads and other public places in Vadavalli.

“Over the next couple of days, Periyanaickenpalayam and Thudialur will join the drive based on a similar objective,” he said.

President of Periyanaickenpalayam Town Panchayat G. Arun Kumar said 2,500 houses would be covered in the first phase beginning on Friday. The rest 7,500 houses would be covered in two phases later.

Last Updated on Saturday, 09 January 2010 01:57
 

Corpn Council advances timing of debates

Thursday, 07 January 2010 07:58 administrator
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The New Indian Express 07.01.2010

Corpn Council advances timing of debates

G Saravanan


CHENNAI: With the debate on significant resolutions at the Corporation Council meetings having become a ‘not so important affair’ for many councillors, due to its timing, the civic body is planning to advance the slot for debates, positioning it just after Question Hour.

According to Ripon Building sources, the proposed advancement was necessitated after a few councillors routinely utilised the debate time to discuss administrative issues rather than burning civic problems.

While resolutions on employees’ retirement, sanctions for long leave, foreign visits, promotions and transfers, which were purely administrative, fully occupied the debate slot, important resolutions involving the city’s infrastructure developments and major policy shifts got the least priority with councillors at the meeting.

The civic body, therefore, plans to delegate powers to different standing committees to sort out the debate-worthy issues.

As per the existing style of function, ordinary council meetings scheduled every month would start at 10 am on the announced day with a Question Hour of about 30 minutes.

Then, Zero Hour would follow, where about 15 councillors including the Opposition Floor Leader and the Ruling Party Leader would be given time to express their views on various issues. It usually lasts about three hours.

Thus, only after three-and-a-half hours of business, would resolutions in the House be tabled and councillors debate on them.

The discussion on resolutions, which takes place at the end of the day, most of the time lacks spirit, and those participating in the debate only speak about administrative problems, a senior Corporation official observed.

Last Updated on Thursday, 07 January 2010 08:00
 

Scheme to generate power from garbage in Tirupur

Thursday, 07 January 2010 06:30 administrator
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The Hindu 07.01.2010

Scheme to generate power from garbage in Tirupur

R. Vimal Kumar

Experts hold interactive technical sessions on the project

Tirupur: Effective disposal of the garbage generated in the city is a key function in which the Tirupur Corporation administration has failed miserably in all these years, but now the situation seems to be changing for the better.

A Rs. 1,423.4 crore dual purpose plant is all set to come up on a public-private partnership (PPP) mode in the city that enables power generation from garbage as well as to treat effluent water, which in turn would help the Corporation and pollution control officials heave a sigh of relief.

Technology

The technology of the project had been developed by the US-based companies M-Limited and Zero Inc in technical collaboration with Texas A &M University.

Of the total capital expenditure, 90 percent would be borne by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) under the World Bank while the remaining portion need to be raised by the Corporation and other stakeholders involved in city development.

Implementation

Mayor K. Selvaraj told The Hindu that the administration had ‘in-principle accepted the concept’ and further steps would be taken for its speedy implementation after consulting the State Government and officials concerned.

Mr. Selvaraj told this after holding few rounds of interactive technical sessions with the experts from Texas A&M University on Tuesday evening and Wednesday.

Charles Allan Jones and R. Srinivasan, both Texas A &M University professors, told The Hindu that that power generated from garbage would be generated on the principle of ‘gasification-oxidation’ using recovery steam generator and stream turbine generator.

Dr. Srinivasan said that the proposed plant would have capacity to generate 30 MW power from every 1,000 tonnes of garbage.

“The power generation cost has been computed at Rs 2,760 per MW,” he added.

Distilled water

The plant would be able to produce two crore litres of distilled water a day from as many litres of effluent water.

A ‘special purpose vehicle’ would be created to operate the plant.

Revenue

The project, once commissioned, would be able to generate revenue of Rs. 441.17 crore from the sale of distilled water, power and other by-products like nitrogen, carbon-di-oxide, argon and ash.

Last Updated on Thursday, 07 January 2010 06:32
 
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