Union Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) Minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed that 97% of wards today have door-to-door collection and approximately 75% of the total waste is being processed and 90% of wards are practicing source segregation. He was addressing the Members of the Consultative Committee attached to the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs.
Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs, Kaushal Kishore, Manoj Joshi, Secretary, MoHUA, Naresh Kumar, Chief Secretary, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Commissioner, DDA, Commissioner, MCD and senior officers from the SBM attended the meeting on behalf of MoHUA. Ramesh Bidhuri, Dr.Kalpana Saini, Thiru A.K.P.Chinraj & Parvesh Sahib Singh were the Members of Parliament who attended the meeting.
Informing the members, the minister further stated that at the time of launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, 95 lakh tonnes per annum (i.e. 26,027 tonnes per day) of waste was treatment capacity across processes such as composting, bio-methanation, RDF and waste to energy plants. This has been enhanced substantially in the last 8 years, and presently, designed input capacity of functional waste to energy and waste to compost plants is approx.1 lakh TPD (incl. C&D waste processing plants).
Puri said that there are 2,285 functional waste to compost plants with capacity to process 71,682 tonnes of waste per day (TPD), and another 73 plants are under construction, with approx. input capacity of 1,084 tonnes per day.