GWMC to set up waste management plants.

​Warangal: The Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) has embarked on a programme to put in place an effective Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) system in the city.

The Corporation has planned to set up four solid waste treatment plants (SWTP) on four sides of the city to meet the future needs of the city. In addition to which a bio-hazardous material treatment plant will be established. The process of identifying suitable locations for setting up the plants has begun.

The GWMC Mayor, N Narender, along with a team of municipal officials inspected various sites on the outskirts of the city for the purpose of setting up the solid waste treatment plants. Each SWTP consists of segregation plant, biogas plant, transform plant and treatment plant.

Care will be taken to ensure sufficient buffer zone at each SWTP, which will be set up in an area of five to 10 acres land to handle 100 metric tonnes waste per day. Paidipalli, Mamnoor, Unikicharla, Gorrekunta, Chintagattu, Kothapalli, Taralapalli, Ammavaripet, and Dharmasagar are the locations identified to set up the treatment plants.

Five of the above locations will be finalised after consulting with technical experts. Speaking to The Hans India, the Mayor said all the five solid waste treatment plants would be established under PPP mode.

Currently the garbage clearance in the tri-cities of Warangal-Hanamkonda-Kazipet has not been done in a scientific manner. Due to which, it has become difficult to recycle and transform the solid waste.

As a result huge quantity of solid waste is getting accumulated at the lone dumping yard at Madikonda on the outskirts of the city under the corporation limits.

On an average, around 200 to 300 metric tonnes of waste is produced in the city every day. Moreover transporting the garbage collected from across the tri-cities to the dumping yard has also become a costly and tough task.

In order to address the problem, it is proposed to set up the treatment plants on four sides of city and it also helps to reduce environmental pollution, the mayor explained.

It is also planned to engage auto-trolleys for door-to-door collection of garbage instead of using tricycles. One trolley will be allocated to 300 households. Efforts to collect bio-hazardous waste generated by hospitals separately will also be taken up.

‘I have asked the officials to study the best practices of solid waste management being employed in cities across the world before going ahead with installing such system in Warangal,’ Mayor Narender informed.

Further, with an objective of reducing expenditure on electricity bills, usage of LED lamps will be taken up on large scale. Besides, solar power plants to meet the GWMC electricity needs will be set up.

A meeting with experts and Central government representatives is scheduled to be held on August 19, he added.

By: James Edwin