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First bio-methane gas plant goes operational
There is a proposal by the GHMC that every establishment generating more than 25 kg of garbage has to set up a compost, bio-methane gas plant at their site, said city Mayor Dr Bonthu Rammohan here on Friday.
Serilingampally: There is a proposal by the GHMC that every establishment generating more than 25 kg of garbage has to set up a compost, bio-methane gas plant at their site, said city Mayor Dr Bonthu Rammohan here on Friday.
While inaugurating the city's first bio-methanenisation gas plant, at transfer station in Chandanagar, Serilingampally, along with MLA Arekapudi Gandhi, Rammohan said that the Central government had issued guidelines that every establishment which produces more than 25 kg of garbage was to set up a separate compost and biogas unit.
As part of corporate social responsibility, HAL has provided Rs 24.76 lakh towards the cost of the plant. The Mayor said around 5,000 MTs of garbage was being generated every day in the city, out of which about 40 per cent was feasible for compost and biogas generation.
If every bulk garbage generator sets up these plants, the overload of garbage on transfer station and the problem of shifting garbage would be reduced considerably. The plant can be upgraded to CNG so that the gas could be supplied to autos, he further added.
Speaking on the occasion, Arekapudi Gandhi said as per the Swachh Bharath, Swachh Hyderabad initiative, if every citizen separates the wet and dry waste at source then the city would be hygienic and neat.
GHMC Zonal Commissioner Hari Chandana said the generation capacity would be upgraded to 10 MTs in due course. 80 cu mt of biogas could be generated from one MT of garbage. HAL General Manager Rajiv Kumar said that as part of Swachh Bharath Mission programme, the HAL released the funds. Corporator Bobba Navatha Reddy and other senior officials of GHMC participated in the programme.
According to the Mayor, during the last two year the GHMC garbage-collection capacity had gone up to 5,500 MT from 3,500 MT after introducing the driver-cum-owner system. The system has paved the way for garbage collection by 2,500 unorganised rag pickers who assist the auto-rickshaws.
He said HAL had offered funds for the project to convert garbage to methane gas and released Rs.24.76 lakh under its corporate social responsibility. The location of the plant at Deeptisrinagar was decided as gated communities and hotels in the Serilingampally zone contributed 20-32 MT of wet garbage.
Among those present were HAL AGM (HR) M A Hafeez, GHMC EE Chinna Reddy, AE Anurag, AMOH Bindu, Work Inspectors Jagdish, Sridhar, TRS leaders U Srikanth, V Harish, Raju, Gopi, Kondal Reddy, Srikanth, Anant Reddy and Ramana Kumari.
