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NAGPUR: Nagpur will be the first city in the country to produce 27 million cubic metre (mcm) of compound biogas every year. An MoU to this effect was signed by Nagpur Municipal Corporation with The Netherlands’ Sustainable Business Development (SusBDe) company.
“A ₹300 crore plant will process the 1,200 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste that the city generates every day and convert it into high quality compost, compressed biomass (CBG) and valuable recyclables daily,” said municipal commissioner Radhakrishnan B.
Dutch consul general Bart de Jong, additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi, executive engineer (public health engineering) Shweta Banerjee, SusBDe company’s executive director Vrinda Thakur and other officials were present during the MoU signing.
“Though the plant will start full-fledged functioning after 18 months, it will start treating wet waste of approximately 600 metric tonnes every day within six months. This is the first project in the country to process such a large amount of waste,” added Radhakrishnan.
In the past, NMC had tried several methods to reduce the waste “but it did not work”. “Despite treating 10 lakh metric tonne of legacy waste, the landfill still has over 13 lakh metric tonne of untreated waste,” said Radhakrishnan.
Barring the allocation of 30 acres of land for the plant at Bhandewadi, NMC has no financial burden on it. NMC will also get a royalty of ₹15 lakh annually from the company. Radhakrishnan said the NMC and the company will have an equal share in the carbon credit after processing the waste.
The project will be built by the company through a local partner and the solid waste will be processed scientifically using the latest technology in the world.
“The emission of toxic gases in the environment due to waste will be reduced,” said group CEO of SusBDe Jaap Veenenbos. De Jong said 20 years ago The Netherlands too was struggling with its waste. “Now the country has overcome the problem,” he said.
Radhakrishnan said the agreement has been prepared for 15 years and there will be a performance review every five years and can be extended to 30 years.
“A ₹300 crore plant will process the 1,200 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste that the city generates every day and convert it into high quality compost, compressed biomass (CBG) and valuable recyclables daily,” said municipal commissioner Radhakrishnan B.
Dutch consul general Bart de Jong, additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi, executive engineer (public health engineering) Shweta Banerjee, SusBDe company’s executive director Vrinda Thakur and other officials were present during the MoU signing.
“Though the plant will start full-fledged functioning after 18 months, it will start treating wet waste of approximately 600 metric tonnes every day within six months. This is the first project in the country to process such a large amount of waste,” added Radhakrishnan.
In the past, NMC had tried several methods to reduce the waste “but it did not work”. “Despite treating 10 lakh metric tonne of legacy waste, the landfill still has over 13 lakh metric tonne of untreated waste,” said Radhakrishnan.
Barring the allocation of 30 acres of land for the plant at Bhandewadi, NMC has no financial burden on it. NMC will also get a royalty of ₹15 lakh annually from the company. Radhakrishnan said the NMC and the company will have an equal share in the carbon credit after processing the waste.
The project will be built by the company through a local partner and the solid waste will be processed scientifically using the latest technology in the world.
“The emission of toxic gases in the environment due to waste will be reduced,” said group CEO of SusBDe Jaap Veenenbos. De Jong said 20 years ago The Netherlands too was struggling with its waste. “Now the country has overcome the problem,” he said.
Radhakrishnan said the agreement has been prepared for 15 years and there will be a performance review every five years and can be extended to 30 years.
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