The Punjab state government has outlined plans to develop a programme for the scientific disposal of solid waste, according to a report in The Indian Express.
The plans were unveiled by Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in Jalalabad, where he said that private companies would set up solid waste processing plants in which power, manure and plastic would be produced.
In addition engineered landfills are to be built for the final disposal of residual waste of the 4300 tonnes of MSW that is generated in each day in the 137 urban local bodies that make up the state.
The state’s waste management infrastructure is divided into eight zones.
The facilities are to be built under 25 year public private partnership contracts, with the government expected to invest Rs5.6 billion ($124 million).
Under the proposals, waste management companies in Punjab will manage the door to door collection of solid waste, which will then be transported to centralised processing plants.
The project is also aimed at freeing the state’s cities of the all too common open dumping grounds were much of the waste currently generated in the region ends up for final disposal.
