In what could spell trouble for another Indian company in Maldives, after the island nation’s government recently scrapped GMR Infra’s contract to run the Male airport, the country’s government is said to have announced it is in the process of renegotiating a waste management contract for the Male area with India-based Tatva Global Renewable Energy.
According to a Maldivian news website, Minivan News, this has led to “criticism from the Opposition-dominated Male City Council (MCC) that the state is trying to sabotage the agreement for political gain”.
The website says, the administration of former president Mohamed Nasheed had signed the original waste management agreement with Tatva in May 2011 in a deal that was supposed to have generated power from recycling waste. The scheme was also said to be part of attempts to improve the overall standards of waste management in Male and the nearby “garbage island”, Thilafushi, the website adds.