Bengaluru, Nov 11 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for a Rs 160-crore compressed biogas (CBG) plant at Bomanahalli in Bengaluru South on November 13, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya said on Wednesday.
Hailing the project, the Bengaluru South MP described it as a long-term solution to the city’s solid waste management challenges.
The project, to be fully funded by the Centre under the Swachh Bharat Mission’s urban component and the SATAT scheme, is expected to be completed and become operational within 15 months.
It will initially process 300 tonne of wet waste daily, with capacity expandable to 500 tonne.
“The capacity of the plant will be 300 tonne per day, extendable to 500 tonne, which means close to 40 per cent of the wet waste generated by Bengaluru South will be addressed by just this one plant alone,” Surya told reporters here.
Explaining the need for the project, the Bengaluru South MP said residents around the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) plant at Bomanahalli had been suffering from foul odour and environmental pollution for nearly 25 to 30 years.
The existing facility receives close to 500 tonne of wet waste every day, with the stench reportedly spreading over three to four kilometres, he said, adding that groundwater contamination due to leachate, besides air and water pollution, had affected the locality.
The Karnataka government had stopped the plant’s operations in 2008 following demands from local residents but restarted it in 2013 due to the absence of an alternative, he said.
Surya said he and local MLA Satish Reddy had worked over the last three to four years to find a sustainable solution under the Swachh Bharat Mission.
Under the proposed circular economy model, wet waste brought to the facility will be converted into biogas, which will be supplied to households through pipelines. Organic manure generated at the plant will also be supplied to farmers.
The facility is expected to process close to one lakh tonne of wet waste annually and provide cooking gas to around 25,000 households in Bengaluru, he explained.
“It means that every day, close to 900 LPG cylinders will be saved, which, in the quantum of a year, will result in about 3.2 lakh LPG cylinders being saved and about Rs 27 crore saved in foreign exchange for the country,” Surya said.
The plant will also generate around 22 tonne of organic manure daily, which farmers in and around Bengaluru can utilise, he added. PTI GMS KH
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