Aiming to make wards self-sufficient in tackling their each day moist waste, thereby decreasing the burden on the principle rubbish processing plant, the municipal company has picked Ward Number 35, comprising Sector 48, 49, 50 and 63, for its “Aatmanirbhar ward”. pilot scheme.

The ward, which homes quite a lot of housing societies, shall be getting the town’s first decentralized waste processing plant, the place the world’s total moist rubbish shall be processed within the ward itself.

The ward consists of 4 bulk waste generator societies, together with Pushpak Society, Progressive Society, BSNL Society and Kendriya Vihar Society, which produce over 984 kg (round 1 metric tonne) of moist waste each day. Besides this, the ward additionally generates 496 kg of dry waste. Currently, all this waste is processed at MC’s central processing plant at Dadumajra.

In all, Chandigarh generates 550 MT of waste each day, of which round 200 MT is dry and 350 MT is moist.

Explaining concerning the plan, mayor Anup Gupta stated, “Under the Municipal Solid Waste Rules, the majority waste generator areas are purported to course of their very own moist waste, failing which heavy penalties are imposed. As the housing societies weren’t following the foundations, default boards have been put in at their entry factors. After they approached MC expressing their incapacity to course of the waste, it was determined to arrange the town’s first decentralized waste processing plant in Ward Number 35.”

“Till this plant is made practical, MC has determined to waive the penalty imposed on these societies on the residents’ request. The agenda for a similar shall be positioned within the subsequent General House assembly in May,” the mayor added.

MC commissioner Anindita Mitra stated, “Estimated to price 50 lakh, the plant shall be run in public-private-partnership (PPP) mode. MC has already floated tenders and we’ve additionally acquired bids from 4 firms. The plant is predicted to be arrange by the top of May. The dry waste from the ward will proceed to be processed on the Dadumajra processing plant.”

Mitra added that the challenge may also assist enhance the town’s Swachh Survekshan rankings.

Chandigarh was ranked twelfth amongst cities with greater than 1 lakh inhabitants within the 2022 cleanliness rankings, an enchancment from 2021, when Chandigarh was ranked sixteenth amongst cities with greater than 10 lakh inhabitants and 66th nationally.