The Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) has geared up for adopting and implementing Vellore model of Solid liquid Resource Management (SlRM) — a concept of safe disposal of solid and liquid wastes under the jurisdiction of civic body.
Earlier, the garbage generated from households and shops were being disposed off in nearby dumping yard from where RMC workers lifted the garbage and dumped them into designated Sarona-based trenching zone for garbage disposal.
RMC Commissioner Rajat Bansal said that concept of disposal of garbage waste under ‘SlRM’ is successfully running in Ambikapur. I planned its implementation in Raipur after inspection of Ambikapur facility. The State government is planning to adopt the concept in other districts under ‘Mission Clean City’, he said.
Now, SlRM units would be helpful not only for disposal of garbage but also such wastes would be utilized as manure for gardening.
Under Swachchhta Survey 2017, the RMC administration has chosen a total of 28 locations in Raipur for constructing composting pit as SlRM units for disposal of solid and liquid garbage.
More than 17 SlRM units comprised of composting pit has made successfully made.
It may be recalled that, SlRM, a concept conceived and perfected by C. Srinivasan, founder of Vellore-based Indian Green Service (IGS) has been recently launched in Ambikapur Municipality in Chhattisgarh whereas this concept has been successfully adopted in Delhi, Maharashtra, Chandigarh, Tamilnadu states of the nation.
The lifting of garbage waste from locality based dumping yard to main garbage dumping zone (Sarona) would be the major advantage of adopting SlRM concept besides utility of liquid (wet) garbage wastes as manure in gardens and in road dividers by the administration of RMC.
On the other hand, the solid (dry) waste garbage would be recycled whereas plastic and polythene garbage would be sold in market after recycling and the earnings would be distributed among the rag pickers.
If SlRM concept is successfully adopted in Raipur city then the State government might adopt this concept of disposal of garbage waste in all districts across over the State.
Notably, the State Urban Development Minister Amar Agrawal has set the deadline of April 2017 to set up SlRM centres in all municipal bodies for undertaking solid and liquid waste management.
He was reviewing work done under ‘Mission Clean City’ at the Mantralaya here last month.
The Minister had also directed officials to start training for members of Self Help Groups (SHGs) for taking up door to door garbage collection, running of SlRM centres and composting of organic waste.
RMC will also be taking up an ‘Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Project’ through Public Private Partnership (PPP) model soon.
The PPP model would be based on Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer ( DBFOT ) basis, officials informed.
Notably, 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 Rs20 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.