The work of clearing the huge pile of waste at Chandigarh’s Dadumajra dumping ground finally began on Friday.
Under the project, about around 5 lakh metric tons (MT) of waste which is lying there for more than two decades will be bio-mined and processed through scientific procedures at a cost of Rs 33 crore.
The entire land about 25 acre will be reclaimed for future use of scientific waste treatment and disposal of waste.
VP Singh Badnore, Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administration on Friday inaugurated the project of “Mining of Legacy Waste and Recovery of Land” in the presence of senior UT Administration and civic body officers.
Speaking on the occasion, the UT Administrator instructed the executing agency to complete the project in timely manner as per guidelines for disposal of legacy waste and SWM rules 2016 and also to minimize the problem of dust and to take suitable measures to control the breeding of flies and foul smell.
The Administrator said, the start of the project will give big relief to the residents from the foul smell and leachate oozing out from the garbage dump which is the major cause of the spreading off various diseases, flies and dust nuisance.
Solid waste management is one of the biggest challenges in the country and the idea of Swachh Bharat Mission could not be achieved until the Municipal Corporations go for the scientific way of disposal for Municipal Solid Waste, he said.
While informing about this project, KK Yadav, Commissioner, MCC-cum-CEO, CSCL said that all this work of bio-mining will be completed within scheduled time span of 540 days i.e. 18 months from the date of start by M/s SMS Limited, Nagpur at approximate cost of Rs 33 crore.
He said that the around 800-900 MT/day lying legacy waste will be turned in to wind-rows by spraying bio-culture solution prior to shift to processing unit lines for its treatment and segregation to collect the end product, i.e. refuse derived fuel (RDF), construction and demolition (C&D) waste and fines (bio-soil) etc. where, the RDF will be disposed off to the cement plant, C&D waste to C&D waste plant of MCC at industrial area and fines will be used as inert material to fill up the low lying areas etc.