The Mysore City Corporation (MCC) has drawn a project to produce manure and power from solid waste that the city is increasingly accumulating every day.
The project, Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Strategy under solid waste management, for which the Government of India has released Rs 30 crore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Reconstruction Mission (JNNURM), will be inaugurated by chief minister B S Yeddyurappa when he visits Mysore on February 13.
Preliminary to this, 30,000 women of the women’s self-help groups have been trained on separating garbage. A convention of these women will take place on February 13 for further training, according to minister-in-charge of Mysore district Shoba Karandlaje.
Around 385 tonnes of waste accumulates every day in the city, a major share coming from residential sources. Some percentage of the garbage is collected door to door and the rest is thrown into the RCC bins, masonry bins and open waste dumping points.
For a population of over eight lakh and 1.75 households in 65 administered wards, nearly 3,000 dustbins are provided at street-corners of the city. A 110-acre land has been identified at Bettadabeedu in H D Kote taluk for being used as waste disposal site.
A staff of nearly 1,700 handles the garbage at various points, of which 1,300 are poura karmikas employed by the MCC and deployed by contractors. Contractors manage about 30 wards, including three markets and main roads at a contract amount of Rs 26.87 lakh The MCC’s annual solid waste management budget is about Rs. 9 crore, amounting to 10 per cent of the overall budget.
The work of separating solid waste will commence from March. Presently, only 15 tonnes of compost is produced out of the solid waste in the 200-tonne capacity compost plant set up under the Asian Development Bank-assisted Urban Infrastructure Development Programme and managed by the MCC. When the separation of waste commences, the compost production will rise to 50 tonnes. The remaining waste can be utilized for power production, she said in Mysore.
Collection of solid waste and transportation, developing the unit of the solid waste treatment plant, renovating the existing plant, development of filling the pits for solid waste are among some of the schemes that MCC will take up for implementation under the solid waste management project.
The Centre gave its clearance for the project on December 19, 2009, along with another project of Rs 384.60 crore for remodeling of storm water drainage system in Mysore. Over the last three years, the Centre has sanctioned six projects in all under the JNNURM.
