The Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) will soon take up work for ‘Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Project’  in the city under Public Private Participation (PPP) mode, officials informed.

The PPP model would be based on Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) basis, officials informed.

Chhattisgarh has two ‘waste-to-energy’ power plants proposed with a total installed capacity of 10 MW.

Notably, five Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) to energy plants with a cumulative installed capacity of 66.5 MW are currently operational/under trial run in the country.

The Chhattisgarh Government has decided to set up a ‘Waste to Energy’ power generation plant in Durg district.

The Government intends to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) administration for jointly taking up the project, officials informed.

The project is proposed to be undertaken under ‘Swachch Bharat Abhiyan’ under the Government’s solid waste management project.

The proposed ‘Waste to Energy’ plant would utilise waste generated from municipal corporations of Bhilai, Durg, Bhilai-Charoda, two municipal councils mainly Jamul and Kumhari and three Nagar Panchayats mainly Utai, Patan and Gunderdehi.

Notably, the State-owned Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company ltd (CSPDCl) in January this year had also announced that it will be purchasing 50 MW of electricity from bio-mass power producers in the State.

The company would sign a 20-year agreement with the power producers, officials stated.

Chhattisgarh is among the leading States for implementing bio-mass power projects such as Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, according to Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

Chhattisgarh had biomass projects generating a total of 249 MW of power as on March 31, 2015.

The total power generation from biomass projects by 12 other States during the aforesaid period in Megawatts is as follows — Andhra Pradesh (288), Gujarat (30.50), Haryana (13.50), Karnataka (107.50), Madhya Pradesh (26), Maharshtra (198), Odisha (20), Punjab (68.50), Rajasthan (101), Tamil Nadu (211.70), Uttar Pradesh (54) and West Bengal (26). 

The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Eenergy provides Central Financial Assistance at the rate of Rs 25.00 lakh per Mega Watt in special category States and Rs 20 lakh per Mega Watt for other States with a cap of Rs 1.50 crore per project.

Chhattisgarh produced 527.63 lakh cubic meters of bio-gas from family type bio-gas plants and large bio-gas plants in the entire State during the 11th Five Year Plan period.

The estimated State-wise production of bio-gas from family type bio-gas plants and large bio-gas plants installed in the country under different programmes of the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) during the 11th Five Year Plan period is as follows (in lakh cubic metres) — Andhra Pradesh (9969.60), Assam (1616.33), Bihar (2325.94), Goa (71.83), Gujarat (8731.94), Haryana (1112.13), Himachal Pradesh (842.47), Jammu & Kashmir (47.44), Jharkhand (107.19), Karnataka (8213.62), Kerala (2399.30), Madhya Pradesh (5713.25), Maharashtra (15297.74), Manipur (38.80), Meghalaya (146.30), Mizoram (72.40), Nagaland (95.83), Odisha (4402.65), Punjab (2966.70), Rajasthan (1235.30), Sikkim (144.66), Tamil Nadu (5261.66), Tripura (53.25), Uttar Pradesh (7765.80), Uttarakhand (531.37), West Bengal (6213.70).

About 6.10 lakh family type bio-gas plants were installed during the 11th Five Year Plan against a target of 6.47 lakh plants under the National Biogas and Manure Management Programme.

The data available with the Ministry pointed out that the  States which have taken leadership position in implementation of bagasse co-generation projects are Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.

The State Urban Development Agency (SUDA) in Chhattisgarh is in the process of preparing a Master Plan for implementation of Solid Waste Management Project in all the 168 Urban local Bodies (UlBs) of Chhattisgarh, officials informed.

SUDA will also get a feasibility study and Detailed Project Report (DPR) prepared for all UlBs in the State .

Meanwhile, it may be recalled that top brains currently being nurtured in the country’s premier business and technology schools will soon get assignments to prepare urban development plans for civic bodies in Chhattisgarh.

The Chhattisgarh Urban Administration and Development Department has decided to invite interns comprising mainly students and researchers from renowned institutions like IITs and IIMs who would help in preparing better plans for management of water supply, low cost housing, sewerage management, solid waste management, poverty eradication, study of various State and Central schemes related to vehicular traffic management in urban areas.  

Moreover, as per official information released during May this year, under the AMRUT Mission the nine municipal corporations- Raipur, Bilaspur, Durg, Bhilai, Korba, Rajnandgaon, Raigarh, Jagdalpur and Ambikapur- have been selected wherein ‘Shahar Sandhan Yojna’ (City Research Scheme) will be launched.