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Kochi
By K. S. Sudhi
KOCHI, SEPT. 12. Intensive `containarisation', creation of an active team of refuse collectors, scientific land-filling using refuse material and setting up of an effective marketing network for compost sales are on the cards as part of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) investment plan in the solid waste management sector of Kochi.
Priority areas
The other priority areas for ADB investment in Kochi are water supply, sanitation and sewerage, drainage and roads. The bank representatives are also understood to have held discussions with officials of the Kudumbasree project and the Department for International Development project for strengthening the garbage collection network in the corporation. The representatives of the bank, visited the garbage-dumping site of the Corporation at Brahmapuram last week for checking the route through which the garbage is to be carried. The officials suggested the utilisation of the existing garbage transportation facilities and also the facilities set up under the DFID project.
Window system
Turning down the proposal for a power-from-waste project, the ADB representatives suggested the window system of solid waste treatment as the ideal one for Kochi. The civic authorities, after a series of deliberations on the technology, had finalised a project of the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation. Now that the technology suited for Kochi has almost been finalised, the authorities are in the process of selecting the manner in which the project is to be implemented in the corporation. The authorities are left with the two options of Build-Operate-and Transfer (BOT) and turn-key for the Kochi project.
Turn-key project
Though most of the Corporation councillors were in favour of setting up the plant on a BOT basis, the private firm that was been selected to implement the project preferred the turn-key basis. Any investment from the international funding agency in this sector would be finalised only after the civic body took a decision in this regard, sources said. The Kochi Mayor, C. M. Dinesh Mani, is understood to have assured the visiting ADB representatives that a decision regarding the manner in which the project is to be implemented would be taken within a day or two.
Mode of transport
The ADB delegates were reportedly of the view that open storage of waste was not advisable in the city. The team's visit to Brahmapuram was aimed at sketching the shortest transport route and listing the approach roads through which garbage can be transported without affecting civic life much. According to indications, the team was not inclined to the proposal of lifting the garbage through the inland waterways to the site of treatment plant, as it required a series of new infrastructure facilities. They also pointed out that many canals would have to be dredged and huge barges acquired for transporting the garbage through canals. As the Corporation was not familiar with the process, the officials suggested retaining the existing system of garbage transport.
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