The Hindu 06.11.2014
Waste management scheme: documents missing
Karthik Madhavan
The tender document and papers related to the solid
waste management scheme, executed on behalf of the Coimbatore
Corporation by the Coimbatore Integrated Waste Management Private
Limited, are missing.
During a thorough review of the
scheme, the Corporation officials learnt to their dismay that the
tender document, based on which the civic body inked the agreement with
the company was missing.
This was immediately brought
to the notice of senior officials who reportedly were contemplating the
next course of action, including lodging a police complaint.
Sources
said that a thorough probe by the police might bring to light the
involvement of insiders – Corporation staff – who, the officials suspect
could have taken away the documents.
Only a few days
ago, the Coimbatore Corporation learnt that the company had not
fulfilled its bank guarantee and soon thereafter Commissioner S. Ganesh
had issued notice to the company. He had also issued notice for poor
performance in the Vellalore dump yard in that the company was not
producing compost in the quantity it ought to produce by processing wet
waste.
The Corporation had inked an agreement more
than five years ago for over Rs. 100 crore with the company for
transporting waste from transit stations to the Vellalore dump yard and
processing the waste there.
The task of collecting
waste from the streets and taking them to the transit stations – primary
collection – was with the Corporation.
On an
average, the Coimbatore Corporation collected and sent over 800 tonnes
of waste a day to the dump yard. The company was supposed to segregate
the waste into degradable, non-degradable and rejects and make compost
the degradable waste, recycle the non-degradable waste and use in
landfill the rejects.
The allegation against the
company was that it was not segregating and processing the waste as
agreed and just dumped the waste as it received. Residents of Vellalore,
Mahalingapuram and other areas near the dump yard have been accusing
the Corporation of not carrying out the waste management in a
transparent manner.
