To improve the financial health of cooperative sugar mills of Punjab and to save the environment, Punjab Cooperation and Jails Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Thursday proposed to set up a BioCNG bottling and fertilizer plant at Batala.
The proposal was made by Randhawa after visiting the state of the art BioCNG bottling and fertilizer plant set up with modern technology at Govardhanathji Energies LLP, Pij Village, Vaso tehsil in Gujarat’s Nadiad district. The plant has been developed by CEID Consultants and Engineering Private Limited, Ahmedabad (Gujarat).
The Minister was apprised that the plant is producing Bio-CNG Gas and Fertilizer from press mud generated by the sugar mills; wastage of milk plants, polluted water generated by effluent treatment plants; municipal solid wastes; rotten and leftover of vegetables, fruit and vegetable wastes generated by vegetable markets and food wastes etc. The BioCNG gas produced is bottled and filled in cylinders to be sold in the open market and the organic manure is also sold in the market.
Randhawa directed the Additional Chief Secretary Cooperation Kalpana Mittal Baruah, and Registrar Cooperative Societies Vikas Garg that Cooperation Department should devise a plan to set up a similar plant at Batala by using the wastage of sugar mills, that is press mud from Ajnala, Batala and Gurdaspur Cooperative Sugar Mills, solid municipal waste of municipal corporations, polluted water generated by effluent treatment plants of milk plants so as to produce BioCNG Gas and Organic Manure which will be sold in the market.
“By this, not only financial health of sugar mills will improve but also help improve the environment in the surrounding areas,” he said.