MMC to treat garbage in November

The heaps of garbage piled at Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) owned Garbage treatment plant at Headland Sada in Mormugao will finally be treated. Eco Pro Environment Services (agency appointed by GSUDA) is planning to start treatment of existing thrash from second week of November.

The MMC has also decided to do away with the new proposal of asking the Saligao-based agency of helping the Sada treatment plant and instead are now going to revert back to its old decision of giving green signal to Eco Pro Environment Services for treating 60,000 odd tonnes of garbage dumped at the plant.

Speaking to Herald, the Chief Officer MMC, Deepali Naik informed that a decision has been taken by MMC to officially launch the work on November 10. As per the suggestions made by Eco Pro Environment Services, MMC has requested the agency to start actual work of treating the garbage from November 10, 2016, so that in nine months time the same would be completed and the dream of upgradation of garbage treatment plant can be fulfilled. 

“Since last several months we have been striving hard to find out solutions as to how huge existing dump at Sada treatment plant can be cleared and Up-gradation plan of the plant can be taken up. Though we had decided to appoint Saligao based Hindustan Waste Treatment Private Ltd to clear our garbage dump, however, after giving serious thought on the proposal of shifting our garbage to Saligao treatment plant, we decided to scrap this plan as technically the same is not viable due to cost factor. Now we have decided to go with the old plans of getting the existing pile of garbage treated at the plant itself,” Naik said.

She further informed that, “As suggested by Eco Pro Environment Services, we have already started creating space inside the plant by shifting the garbage dump, so that the agency could install all three garbage treatment machines at three different locations inside the plant. Once these machineries are installed the said agency would treat seven to eight hundred tonnes of garbage every day.

“Also we have identified Old Ravindra Bhawan site to shift segregated waste including plastics, bottles besides other wastes which can be bailed and can be sent to recycling units outside the state. Though we wanted the agency to complete the work within six months time, however as requested by the agency we have asked them to complete the work within nine months time,” Naik stated.

As per Naik, till the time bio mining process would start, dumping of fresh garbage would be stopped immediately at the existing site and fresh garbage will now be dumped in a place near the bio medical pits located inside the plot adjacent to the existing site. 

All these efforts would surely help the MMC to overcome the long pending garbage menace faced by it for the past several years. Once the process of treatment of existing garbage besides upgradation of plant gets completed, then MMC which is presently facing citizens’ criticisms would be in a position to pat its back for having ultra modern garbage plant that does not release foul smell and residents of Headland Sada would again live a stink free life.