Mumbai firm gets waste collection contract in Noida

Noida ( UP), Sept. 6: A Mumbai- based private firm bagged Thursday a contract worth ` 360 crore for doortodoor, solid waste collection in Noida for 10 years. A Noida administration official said the contract has been awarded to the AG Enviro Infra Project Private Limited of Mumbai, through a global tender and the service is likely to begin by December this year. “For ` 360 crore, i. e., approximately 30 crore per annum, this firm will carry out door- todoor waste collection in entire Noida for a period of 10 years,” officer on special duty Rajesh Kumar Singh said in a statement. He said the authority had estimated a cost of ` 400 crore for the project when the tender was floated to hire a private agency in January this year. “This was a much pressing task for the authority. The firm which has been awarded the contract will use its own resources, including men and machines, to do the work, with the allocated funds by the authority,” he said. The OSD said the waste collection service would be provided in both the rural and urban areas of Noida. As per current estimates, the city produces around 600 metric tonnes of solid waste daily, but does not have a mechanism to collect it from households. With the doortodoor collection of the garbage and stricter implementation of the waste management rules, the littering on city roads would come down and recycling of the waste too would be improved, the official said.