Hyderabad gets approval for its second waste-to-energy plant
Environment and forest ministry has given their approval for a 28 MW waste-to-energy plant in Hyderabad.
On Monday, K T Rama Rao, Telangana’s minister for municipal administration and urban development, said a waste to energy plant in Hyderabad, with a generation capacity of 28 MW, had been approved by the union environment and forest ministry.
With the completion of this 28 MW plant, he explained, this city would have the highest capacity of waste to energy plants in South India, at 48 MW. One year ago, the city inaugurated the largest waste to energy plant in South India of 20 MW.
During the flagging off of 1,350 Swachh Auto Tippers (SATs) at Sanathnagar, the minister stated that the new SAT vehicles will serve new areas. They are each capable of carrying 1.5 metric tons of waste. Under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s Driver-cum-Owner Scheme, more than 4,500 SAT vehicles were provided.
In the SATs, wet and dry waste can be carried separately, as well as hazardous waste can also be collected separately. A single vehicle can provide service for 450 to 500 households.
The minister hopes that these vehicles will enable GHMC to improve its garbage collection and segregation efficiency even further. The addition of these SATs will increase the total number of vehicles in GHMC to 5,250, he pointed out.
The city generated 3,500 tonnes of garbage daily before 2,500 vehicles were dispatched under the Swachh Telangana mission, he recalled. The garbage generation has increased to 6,500 tonnes as a result of improving door-to-door garbage collection, the provision of transfer stations and dumping yards. Rao said the government was also working on developing waste to energy projects to recycle garbage.
Under the government of India’s Swachh Bharat and Swachh Sarvekshan programs, Hyderabad has received the best ranking among big cities with a population of over 40 lakh for the last five or six years.
Throughout the speech he expressed gratitude to sanitation workers, including the drivers and other employees of vehicles who work from 3-4 a.m. for garbage collection. Taking into account the services provided by sanitation staff, state chief minister Chandrashekhar Rao has increased wages three times in the past seven years, he added.
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