Kanpur Municipal Corporation has awarded the contract for collection and transportation of municipal solid waste for Kanpur city to a2z Infrastructure Limited for a period of 30 years.
This contract is an extension (backward integration) to the processing and disposal of solid waste which a2z Infrastructure is currently handling for Kanpur since May 2010.
The company will now manage the entire solid waste of the city from door-to-door collection and transportation, processing and disposal, and generating electricity from waste in an environmental friendly manner.
This is being touted as South East Asia’s largest integrated municipal solid waste management facility.
a2z Infrastructure will manage the entire city’s approximately 1,500 tonnes per day of solid waste to be collected from 850,000 households across the city’s 110 wards, which are to be covered by December 2010.
The company is also constructing a municipal solid waste management plant to power the project. Majority of the fuel used in the plant will be RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) derived from solid waste. The plant is scheduled to be operational by March 2011 and will have the capacity to produce 15 Megawatt.
a2z Infrastructure joint MD and CEO Rajneesh Mehra said Kanpur had been ranked amongst the top 10 sanitized cities in India by union ministry of urban development in 2010.
All vehicles transporting the garbage are tracked with the help of GPS (Global Positioning System), a satellite based navigation system.
a2z Infrastructure has a portfolio of approximately 5,000 tonnes per day of municipal solid waste management in 14 cities including Patna, Meerut, Varanasi, Muzzafarnagar, Moradabad and Kanpur.
