BMC’s waste-to-energy plant at Dadar stalled

The plant was expected to come up in the land belonging to civic sewage operations department located behind the market. However, the department turned down the demand to provide its land stating it 'may be needed for its own home-grown projects in the future

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s plans to set up a waste-to-energy plant at Dadar has been kept on hold. Supposedly, the talks broke due to the reluctance of its own department to provide land for the project.

According to civic officials, the environment department of BMC had planned to set up a waste-to-energy plant by using all the wet waste produced at the Meenatai Thackeray flower market in Dadar. Had the proposal come to bloom, the plant would have treated 10 tonnes of wet waste to generate 800 units of electricity every day.

The civic body has now started looking for an alternative place for the project.

“Though we have scrapped the idea of setting up the project at the proposed site belonging to the sewage operations department, the search for an alternative place is on. Once it is available, the waste-to-energy plant will be built there,” said a senior civic official from solid waste management department.

The plant was expected to come up in the land be longing to civic sewage operations department located behind the market.

However, the department turned down the demand to provide its land stating it 'may be needed for its own home-grown projects in the future' and as a result, should not be used for any other project.

The BMC had planned to supply the energy generated to the Pramod Mahajan Udyan, the flower market, the fish market, the toilets and sewage treatment plant in Dadar.

The project would have helped generating power by a non-traditional method. It would have also led to saving expenditure on electricity, said civic officials.