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Privatisation of garbage handling planned

Special Correspondent

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Solution in sight: A private firm will dispose of accumulated garbage at the Vellalore yard of the Coimbatore Corporation. –

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation will go in for partial privatisation of the removal of garbage from transfer stations and its disposal as part of its Rs. 96.51-crore Integrated Solid Waste Management Scheme, under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The Corporation informed the Council on Tuesday that the State Government had cleared a proposal to lease out the civic body’s lands to a Mumbai-based private consortium to implement the privatised components of the scheme.

The Corporation will collect segregated waste door-to-door, from homes and commercial establishments. Besides this primary collection, the civic body will carry out secondary collection from common points to transfer stations. This part of the scheme will cost Rs. 26.91 crore. The private firm will collect waste from the transfer station and dispose it through composting or at a landfill. The consortium will develop the transfer stations and the landfill site and a composting facility to create manure. The private firm will also dispose of tonnes of garbage now accumulated at the dump yard at Vellalore on the city’s outskirts. All this will be done at a cost of Rs. 69.50 crore under the public-private partnership option that the JNNURM has offered to 63 cities identified for waste management and infrastructure development. The Corporation proposes to allocate 181 acres of its 600-acre yard at Vellalore to the private firm. Another 6.26 acres of Corporation lands will be allocated for transfer stations at three locations. The space at the yard and three other locations will be leased out for 20 years at an annual rent of Re.1 a sq. m.

The consortium has agreed to pay more whenever the government revised the lease rent rate.

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