n In order to deal with green waste, Lieutenant Governor (L-G), Anil Baijal inaugurated two aerobic composters, one each at Delhi’s East of Kailash and Chirag Dilli.
Speaking on the occasion, L-G while referring to the fast increasing population in Delhi and limited resources available exhorted the local bodies to make all out efforts for optimum rational and conservation of natural resources.
Baijal stated that the population of Delhi was just 20 lakh in 1977 which has increased ten times today at 20 million. “This is the reason in the big stride in the generation of waste. It is a daunting challenge to manage and process entire quantity of waste,” he said.
He appreciated the efforts of SDMC in establishing relevant and much needed plants which will go a long way in production of enriched organic manure.
LG underlined the need of more such plants under
SDMC jurisdiction. Baijal heaped praises over SDMC for taking new initiatives one after another.
Gyanesh Bharti, Commissioner of SDMC said that the SDMC has decided to prepare manure with green waste. “This will go a long way in moving fast in the direction of waste to wealth. It will also help in maximising the quantity of waste management. The SDMC have decided to set up four aerobic drum composters out of which one aerobic drum composter was made functional in February 2019. The two such plants are being inaugurated today at East of Kailash and Chirag Dilli and the rest one will take a few months in commissioning,” said Bharti.
“The aerobic drum composters are Plug and Play model and can be shifted to another site at any time. These are zero discharged plants with minimal requirement of water for cleaning. These plants process bio degradable municipal solid waste to produce organic manure and compost. The cost of one aerobic drum composter it is 36.5 lakh,” Bharti said.