Margao Embraces Advanced Waste Management with Gasification Tech

20 Feb 2024 CW Team

The tender mandates the successful bidder to design, supply, install, test and commission the 10TPD gasification technology-based waste disposal system for the treatment of municipal solid waste at Sonsodo. The contractor will be mandated to sign a five-year comprehensive operation and maintenance contract with the MMC.

The gasification plant has been proposed by GEDA on behalf of the municipal council after a joint delegation comprising officials of GEDA, Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB), GWMC, GSUDA, besides the Margao Municipal Council, visited a Pune-based start-up which has come up with the gasification technology for waste disposal.

GEDA Member Secretary Sanjeev Joglekar told The Goan that the agency has floated the e-tender on behalf of the MMC, adding that it is now for the civic body to take a call on whether to go for the plant or not. He said the plant is expected to cost the MMC around Rs seven crore, adding that if the MMC does not show interest in the plant, the government may have to shift it to some other civic body.

Presently, the Margao Municipal Council does not treat even a kilogram of wet waste generated in the commercial capital. The entire quantum of wet waste, around 30 tonnes to be precise, is transported to the Cacora waste treatment plant at a huge cost, running into lakhs of rupees.

Though the MMC had set up the controversial 5TPD bio-methanation plant at the SGPDA, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has now directed the civic body to set up additional bio-digesters at Sonsodo and dismantle the plant from the PDA market within six months.

In an interesting development on garbage management in the commercial capital, the Goa Energy Development Agency (GEDA) has floated an e-tender on behalf of the Margao Municipal Council for the installation of a 10TPD gasification technology waste disposal system. The tender mandates the successful bidder to design, supply, install, test and commission the 10TPD gasification technology-based waste disposal system for the treatment of municipal solid waste at Sonsodo. The contractor will be mandated to sign a five-year comprehensive operation and maintenance contract with the MMC. The gasification plant has been proposed by GEDA on behalf of the municipal council after a joint delegation comprising officials of GEDA, Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB), GWMC, GSUDA, besides the Margao Municipal Council, visited a Pune-based start-up which has come up with the gasification technology for waste disposal. GEDA Member Secretary Sanjeev Joglekar told The Goan that the agency has floated the e-tender on behalf of the MMC, adding that it is now for the civic body to take a call on whether to go for the plant or not. He said the plant is expected to cost the MMC around Rs seven crore, adding that if the MMC does not show interest in the plant, the government may have to shift it to some other civic body. Presently, the Margao Municipal Council does not treat even a kilogram of wet waste generated in the commercial capital. The entire quantum of wet waste, around 30 tonnes to be precise, is transported to the Cacora waste treatment plant at a huge cost, running into lakhs of rupees. Though the MMC had set up the controversial 5TPD bio-methanation plant at the SGPDA, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has now directed the civic body to set up additional bio-digesters at Sonsodo and dismantle the plant from the PDA market within six months.

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