Gurgaon to have waste management plant

CHANDIGARH: Gurgaon will have an ultramodern solid waste management plant to be set up near village Bandhwari, in which, according to the consultant agency NBCC, the inert material left for dumping will be merely 15 per cent of the total garbage treated in it, rest will be utilized and the nearby villages will not have even the stinking smell.

If the consultants are believed, a similar plant on the same technology is functioning in Rajkot of Gujarat where people go for outings and have beer in the green belt developed around it.

The Bandhwari plant will have a capacity of treating 1000 tons of garbage per day and it would be surrounded by a green belt.

"The plant will cater to the needs of both Faridabad and Gurgaon districts and the expenditure would be borne by the Faridabad Municipal Corporation" said Rajesh Kumar Khullar, Municipal Commissioner Faridabad.

According to him, earlier a plan was prepared to set up a separate solid waste management plant for Faridabad for which NBCC was appointed consultant and the site was just 7 km away from the one chosen for Gurgaon plant.

So, the state government asked to find out the possibilities of having a joint facility for both the cities.

Khullar said that accordingly the design and technology which was to be adopted in the Faridabad plant would now be applied in the Bandhwari plant for which the Gurgaon district administration has got all the clearances from Ministry of Environment and Pollution Control Board.