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VASCO: Biotechnology driven waste treatment plant will be completed by February 18. This plant to treat and 1000 metric tonnes of legacy stacked mixed waste daily; total 1.20 lakh metric tonnes of waste to be treated and cleared within four month’s time.
This was informed by Urban Development Minister Milind Naik.
Addressing the media after inspecting the new waste treatment plant work, Naik said, “The waste treatment plant will be functioning under bio-mining technology and similar waste treatment plant of greater capacity is successfully functioning in Pune which I have visited personally.”
Naik mentioned that this project is of Goa Waste Management Corporation. Under this project three contractors have been finalised who will treat the old stacked waste dumps from all over Goa. Under one of such work, this plant will be functioning to clear our legacy waste dumps.
The minister also revealed that initially there was a problem with regards to the availability of the space to set up the plant which was recently solved after Art and Culture Department’s area was handed over to GSUDA and now this plant will come on the 12,000 square metres land available at Headland Sada.
“The private company in Pune handles around 1500 tonnes of mixed waste and treat it daily. I am expecting that the setting up work of this plant will be completed by February 18 and by February 20 the plant is expected to function. This plant will be functioning in two shifts, day and night, and per day 1000 tonnes of mixed waste which is legacy waste will be treated. We will see the functioning of this plant and if it works efficiently then we might introduce two more machinery in this plant for mixed waste treatment in the near future,” Naik added.
Yashraj Infra Pvt Ltd’s project engineer Kamlesh Singh informed that they have been given the work to set up 1000 metric ton treatment machinery plant, whose almost 70 percent of the set up work has been done and by February 18 the entire machine set up work will be completed.
He further told that this plant will be functional in two shifts day as well as night. This plant contains fully mechanised, automatic system and the waste treatment will be handled completely by machine.
Singh said, they collect waste, then they introduce some chemical into it and once the gases from the waste are clear it is brought to feeding system, from here it is taken to do primary waste segregation. Non biodegradable waste is separated. He further added that they have a target of four months to clear the dumped stacked waste of 1.20 lakh metric tonne at Solid waste dumping site before Monsoon.
