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Subsidy for setting up biogas plants

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: The city corporation plans to support individual efforts to set up biogas plants at the local level by providing subsidy.

The civic body will pay 10 per cent of the project cost to individuals setting up the plants, Mayor Mercy Williams said here on Tuesday.

Subsidy would be given only to projects cleared by the Standing Committee on Health of the corporation. This condition was put forward for ensuring control of the civic body on such projects, she said.

At least two banks had offered loans for the projects. In case of projects for which bank loan had been received, the last three instalments of the repayment would be the subsidy.

She said the tender for taking out garbage from the city would be opened on Thursday. The tenders had been floated again as the amounts quoted by the firms earlier were on the higher side, she said.

Two offices — one for engineers of the Andhra Pradesh Technology Development Corporation and another for its health wing — would be soon opened at the corporation. These offices would coordinate the work for setting up the proposed solid-waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram.

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