HYDERABAD: Twin cities will be soon be having its second garbage power plant with RDF Power Projects Ltd. getting permission to set up its unit in Chinnaravupally village of Bibinagar mandal of Ranga Reddy district.

With the clearance of this long pending proposal, it will be the second such project for the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) after Selco in Shadnagar set up two years ago and running successfully.

RDF, waiting for allotment of land for a long time, has now identified 26 acres of land in the village located within 50 km range of the city on its own. It has also tied up with a foreign firm and is likely to use 700 MT of municipal solid waste (MSW) to generate 11 megawatts of power.

As per a Government Order issued few days ago, it will have exclusive rights to sell or dispose of the fuel and reclaimed material. RDF is responsible for disposing of the factory rejects at designated places identified by the corporation within 20 km from the plant.

Agreement with MCH

The MCH on its part will have to deliver the MSW to the firm's doorstep. RDF had entered into an agreement with the civic body five years ago for setting up the plant with the assurance that 10 acres of land would be provided at the then dumping yard in Autonagar.

Though the firm was ready with permissions from the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board and also declared financial closure, the MCH was unable to delineate the land at Autonagar, which was already full. Adibatla was proposed next but it was nixed since it came under 10-km radius of Shamshabad international airport.

Subsequently, the MCH grappling with 2,400 MTs of MSW every day had asked RDF as also other seven/eight firms interested in setting up such plants to find `suitable' sites on their own. RDF is to convert waste to energy facility through gasification technology.

With 700 MTs being used by Selco, the MCH is expecting that a substantial chunk of garbage will be taken care of, once these plants go on stream. It will also reduce the amount of waste going to the Jawaharnagar dumping yard where a temporary landfill is to be built soon. "It will be set up over 50 acres and could cost Rs. 50 crores. It will last up to three years," says K. Rajiv Babu, an MSW official.

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