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District admin allots 40 acre for Bandhwari stops intake of waste

Mohali waste-to-energy plant- from March 15

ollowing the Punjab government’s nod to hand over rom March 15, the municipal corporations of
Fthe construction and operations of the waste-to- FGurugram and Faridabad will no longer dump
energy plant in Samgoli village of Dera Bassi to the their fresh municipal waste at the Bandhwari landfill,
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the district having opted to process it at alternative sites in Basai
administration has handed over the 40 acres of the total 50 (Gurugram) and Sihi village (Faridabad). Meanwhile,
acres for the project to the Mohali municipal corporation efforts to process about 27.5 lakh tonnes of legacy
waste at the landfill will continue, but without
the involvement of Ecogreen Energy, the MCG’s
concessionaire for waste management in the city. This
was mentioned in an affidavit submitted by the MCG
to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) late last month.
The affidavit dated February 26, a copy of which is with
HT, states that the decision to halt further dumping of
waste at the landfill “has been necessitated by a lack of
available space at Bandhwari to handle both fresh and
legacy waste simultaneously”. In a previous affidavit,
submitted to the NGT in early February, the MCG had
(MC). Confirming the development, MC commissioner alluded to space constraints at the plant, which were
Kamal Kumar Garg said the civic body will construct the hampering remediation of the landfill. At the time,
boundary wall for the project within two months, following the MCG had stated that they were in talks with the
which the land will be allotted to the NTPC. Local bodies Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA)
department additional chief secretary Sanjay Kumar said, and the Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) to
“The agreement for constructing and maintaining the make “additional land available to concessionaire in
plant will be signed between the NTPC and the Mohali
MC, the nodal agency for the project, after the approval
of the cabinet, which will be done soon.” The NTPC will
build the 7-megawatt (MW) waste-to-energy plant over
50 acres under the build own operate (BOO) model,
which will be completed within 18 months as part of
GMADA-Patiala municipal solid waste cluster. The NTPC
had already initiated such projects at Kawas in Surat
(Gujarat), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, Indore and East Delhi.
The project has been hanging fire since 2010 when the
MC had prepared the detailed project report (DPR) for a
plant worth Rs 100 crore, including land costs.Presently,
the waste is being dumped at an unauthorised dumping
ground in the Phase 8B of Industrial Area, with locals and
industrialists protesting over it. Mohali generates about and around Gurugram”.The MCG has now leased out
150 metric tonnes of garbage in a day. The plant with five acres of land from the GMDA in Basai’s Sector 101,
a capacity to process up to 400 metric tonnes of waste where Ecogreen Energy will continue to process fresh
per day will benefit 15 urban local bodies including Dera waste as per CPCB guidelines.. In Faridabad, the MCF
has identified a similar 10-acre site in Sihi village.
Bassi, Rupnagar, Kharar and Sirhind. The project will be Gurugram and Faridabad together dump a total of
completed within the next two years and the waste to 1,900 tonnes of waste at Bandhwari daily, of which the
energy plant would generate power from 600 tonnes per former contributes at least 1,000 tonnes.
day (TPD) waste collected from Mohali and Patiala.

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