Waste treatment plants will soon turn wealth generating units, says MA&UD Minister Narayana
Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development P. Narayana has stated that solid waste treatment in the State will get a boost with Chief Minister
Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development P. Narayana has stated that solid waste treatment in the State will get a boost with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu giving the go-ahead for the establishment of 107 processing units across the State by the end of July, approximately with an outlay of ₹300 crore. Speaking to the media after inspecting the Donthali dumping yard in Nellore Rural, where a processing plant installation work was going on, Mr. Narayana said one lakh tonnes of legacy waste in Donthali would be cleared by the end of this month, where the Jindal group was coming up with a waste-to-energy plant.
The plant would be commissioned within two years, with a capacity to burn the solid waste generated within the vicinity of 100 km every day. The previous government, “lacking vision,” had not only levied garbage tax on the people but also left behind 153 lakh tonnes of waste, the Minister charged. Similarly, the plants sanctioned by the TDP government between 2014-19 were ignored by the successor YSRCP regime. Had they been completed, the plants would have incinerated 7,000 tonnes of solid waste across the State every day, he said.
“The NDA government, after coming to power, has cleared 130 tonnes of garbage in two years and the remaining 23 lakh tonnes will be cleared and processed by July,” he said. As on date, 2,800 tonnes of garbage was being used to generate power in Guntur and Visakhapatnam. The government brought in six more waste-to-energy plants, which would be commissioned across the State. The treatment plants would become a wealth-generating infrastructure soon, he observed.
Nellore Municipal Corporation Commissioner Y. Nandan and other officials took part.
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