PMC to advise other cities in state on solid waste management

In a letter to the PMC, Kumar said the state urban development department had communicated that, considering the good work of civic body in solid waste management, its experience should be used for other local civic bodies in preparing solid waste management plan.
The state government has suggested that the PMC set up a independent cell in the civic body to prepare detailed project report (DPR) for other local civic bodies in solid waste management, he said.

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“The PMC would be paid consultancy fee as per the norms of Union government for the service to prepare DPR of solid waste management for other cities,” Kumar said.

Meanwhile, the PMC has set a target of December 2016 to make city free of garbage. “All eyes are set on the PMC over its implementation of decentralised model of solid waste management. There is no other city in the country with such a big initiative on processing of solid waste in decentralised manner,” Kumar said.

The Union government has set up a committee of 10 chief ministers to study the models for solid waste management and they had recently send NITI Aayog team to PMC for the purpose, he said.

In January, the PMC was able to process 650 tonnes of the 1,600 tonnes waste generated every day in its jurisdiction and by September end, the processing capacity would increase by 725 tonnes to process 1,375 to 1,400 tonnes of waste daily, the municipal commissioner said. The processing capacity would increase to 2,000 tonnes by December 2016, he added.

As per the target for September, the waste processing through biogas plants would be 125 tonnes and the new mechanical composting system would process 100 tonnes.

Similarly, the waste processing project at Katraj would handle 50 tonnes by July end while the special plant at Talegaon for food waste processing will start and the capacity of Rochem processing plant is being increased from 250 tonnes to 500 tonnes.