-SATISH HANDA

Chief Minister Haryana Manohar Lal Khatter laid foundation stone of country’s biggest ‘Waste to Energy Plant’  having capacity to produce 25 Mega Watt (MW) electricity from wastes at Bandhwadi land-fill site on Gurugram-Faridabad road in Gurugram district. Electricity will be produced from garbage collected from door-to-door at Guugram and Faridabad by the waste management organization Eco Green Energy Company. Earlier, a 24 MW capacity ‘Waste to Energy Plant’ was set up at Bawana in Delhi in 2017.

Information reveals, proposed ‘Waste to Energy Plant’ to be commissioned at Bandhwadi is likely to be completed in two years by December 2023. The said plant will be based upon most modern technique to produce electricity from garbage for which hi-tech machinery including two boilers of capacity 750 TPD each and a turbo generator of capacity 25 MW imported from France will be installed.   According to information, earlier a plant installed in 2013 at Bandhwadi became out of order after disposing of garbage collected from door-to-door at Gurugram and Faridabad after about eight years as such nearly 32 lakh ton garbage is lying dumped at Bandhwadi land-fill now has taken a shape of a mountain in the area.

According to Sumeet Kumar Ailawadi General Manager Engineering & Projects of Eco Green Company, the  proposed plant will have capacity to process 2100 ton garbage daily and presently about 1900 ton garbage is being collected from Gurugram and Faridabad being thrown at Bandhwadi land-fill site every day which will be consumed in the proposed plant providing positive results and relief to residents of Gurugram and Faridabad from garbage  scattered in the area leaving stink Eco Green Energy Company had started collecting door-to-door garbage from both towns in 2017. Ailawadi said, the proposed unit will be the biggest ‘Waste to Energy Plant’ in the country and work will start on war-footing basis to complete the project within scheduled time.