Governor inaugurates MRF-cum-Garbage Transfer Station at Chandigarh
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Vinay Kumar sharma
Chandigarh
Sh. Banwarilal Purohit, the Governor,
Punjab and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh today inaugurated the third Material
Recovery Facility – cum - Garbage Transfer Station at Sector 25, near
Dadumajra, Chandigarh in the presence of Smt. Sarbjit Kaur, Mayor, Sh. Dharam
Pal, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator and other senior officers of
Administration and MCC. While speaking on the occasion after inauguration of the
Station, the Governor said that the centre is third out of three facilities
which have been constructed in the city for the systematic and scientific
solution of the Municipal Solid Waste generated in the city, first one was set
up at 3BRD and second one was set up in industrial area Ph-I and are under
operation. He said that the project is one of the component of the
comprehensive Solid Waste Management System as per SWM Rules, 2016, which aims
at reducing the time and cost involved in collection and transfer of waste two
besides generating income by recovering the reusable and recyclable waste. The
Governor said that Smart City Ltd. has done remarkable job by deploying small
vehicles for door to door collection of segregated city waste and the same will
be tracked using GPS devices and citizens can know timing of arrival through
app developed under a separate project for tracking of vehicles.
Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner,
Municipal Corporation-cum-CEO, Chandigarh Smart City Ltd. briefed about the
project that door to door waste collection vehicles will bring segregated waste
i.e. dry & wet waste in different compartments at the Material Recovery
Facility which is having dedicated space for sorting of recoverable dry waste
into different categories like paper, card, recyclable plastics, glass bottles,
metal etc, Dry waste left after recovery of recyclable materials will be
compacted in huge compactors to compost plant located in Sector 25, near
Daddumajra, Chandigarh. Weigh bridges have been provided for measurement of dry
and wet waste within the Material Recovery Facility. She said that MRF facility
is equipped with hopper- tippers and compactor capsules for transfer of waste
from smaller (3.2 cum) vehicles to 20 cum capsules where the waste will be
compacted to one fifth of the original volume. The volume reduction will save
cost of transportation of waste and space required for disposal of waste. She
said that waste from Sector 31, 32, 33,34, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, part
63, Industrial Area Ph-I, Ramdarbar, Hallomajra, Makhan Majra, Behlana is being
brought at 3BRD facility. MRF cum GTS at west of sec 25 will cater to Sector 1,
2, 3,4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40,
41, 42, 43, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, Part 61, Maloya, Dhanas, Sarangpur, Khuda
Lahora, Khuda Ali Sher and remaining sectors waste is being brought to
Industrial area Phase I, Chandigarh.
She further said that the
MRF stations have been equipped with parking facilities and vehicle washing
facilities. These will be monitored through 20 CCTV cameras.
Each transfer station has Material Recovery Facility cum Transfer Stations with
2 Conveyer Belts for each station, Industrial Shed, 3 Weigh Bridge, one Wash
System, CCTV, Mechanical equipment for volume reduction of waste to one fifth
of original volumes and 9 truck loaded capsules to carry compacted waste to
Processing Plant / Composting plant site. The total project is being implement
through two contract packages one for civil and one for Mechanical works. The
other officers who were present during the inaugural programme were Sh. Nitin
Kumar Yadav, IAS, Home Secretary, Sh. Vinay Pratap Singh, IAS, Deputy
Commissioner, Sh. Dalip Sharma, Senior Deputy Mayor, Sh. Anup Gupta, Deputy
Mayor, Mrs. Poonam, area councillor, other councillors and officers of
Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh.
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