SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) for the third time will float tender for the proposed 250 TPD (tonnes per day) state-of-the-art solid waste management facility at Bainguinim.
Waste Management Minister Atanasio Monserrate on Tuesday said that the tender will be floated within two months.
“We have decided to float a new tender as most bidders failed to qualify during the previous tender process,” he said.
Monserrate said that irrespective of any opposition, the government will go ahead with the project which has all requisite permissions from the authorities concerned.
“We have got clearance from the High Court of Bombay at Goa. The matter is pending before the Supreme Court but no stay has been given. Hence, the process will go on from our end,” he said.
The Minister said that the plant, which will be built adopting the technology used at the Saligao solid waste management plant, is the need of the hour.
The Rs 200 crore public-private partnership project will be built on a design-build-finance-operate-transfer basis. The facility will be based on recycling and sorting lines, segregation, bio-methanation and composting systems.
In 2008, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) acquired land at Bainguinim to set up the waste management plant, which was then caught in legal battles.
In 2017, the land was handed over to the GWMC for the setting up of the plant.
