North civic body to buy recycled tiles, bricks
NEW DELHI: The North Delhi Municipal Corporation will start using recycled products, such as bricks, kerb stones and tiles from its construction and demolition waste plant at Burari for building roads and pavements. The decision will help the body to reduce expenditure on infra projects as the firm which runs the waste recycling plant has agreed to give 35% rebate on the purchase of these products, said Veena Virmani, standing committee chairman, north corporation.
Officials said this is the first time in Delhi that a municipal body would use recycled products in construction projects. The civic body has a budgetary deficit of ₹3,000 crore which has hampered development works for the past several years.
“The municipal corporation was not using the recycled products since there were doubts over their durability. Recently, we visited the plant and got the products tested. The results were satisfying and, thus, directions have been issued to the officials to prepare necessary proposals for buying these products. Soon terms and conditions of the sale will also be finalised,” Virmani said.
The construction and demolition waste management rules, 2016 mandates that state government and local authorities must procure and utilise 10%-20% materials made from construction waste in municipal and government contracts.
Virmani said each construction material store in 104 wards under the North corporation would be supplied with the bricks, interlocking tiles, manhole covers, slabs, etc worth ₹10 lakh each month.
“The civic body will save ₹3.5 crore every month on building material as the company maintaining the plant on public private partnership will give 35% rebate. Moreover, since the company is running the facility on MCD land, the financial dealings between two of us can be settled through negotiation. We will get regular supply even if there is a delay in payment,”the standing committee chairman said.
Nearly 4,000 metric tonnes of construction and demolition waste is generated in the areas under north corporation daily. Of this, 2,000 metric tonnes goes to the Burari C&D waste recycle plant and the remaining is sent to landfill or open dumping sites. At the recycling plant, the debris is crushed, washed and is used to make ready-mix concrete, kerb stones, cement bricks, pavement blocks, hollow bricks and manufactured sand.
The municipality is planning to build another waste recycling plant at Rani Khera to utilise the maximum amount of the construction and demolition waste.
“We will float tenders for the project soon. The C&D waste plant will be constructed over a 15-acre plot. Once made operational, it will consume up to 2,000 metric tonne of waste every day, leaving nothing to be dumped at the landfill sites,” said a north corporation official.