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City’s modern garbage disposal plant ready

Krishnaprasad

Degradable waste to be converted into vermicompost

About 1,000 tonnes of trash to be carried to the plant near Doddaballapur
All the trash trucks will be fitted with GPS and data monitored by BBMP

Bangalore: Bangalore city will shortly get its first web camera-enabled online monitoring system to track garbage disposal system and modern plant to scientifically treat 1,000 tonnes of solid waste every day.

The new facilities, set up at Gundlahalli near Doddaballapur by Terra Firma Biotechnologies Ltd. (TFBL), will produce vermicompost and biogas from the solid wastes using latest technology.

For this purpose, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the TFBL, which will receive up to 1,000 tonnes of garbage from the BBMP everyday.

The city generates about 3,000 tonnes of garbage every day.

The new processing unit set up using the information technology tools like web camera, global positioning system (GPS), and online data transfer will bring an order to silicon city’s garbage disposal system, according to BBMP Commissioner S. Subramanya.

The reports generated from online data would be given to MLAs and contractors, whose trucks are engaged in transportation of garbage.

Deduction in payment and penalty would be levied based on this data and there would be no scope for manipulation, said Mr. Subramanya. Such a monitoring system was the first of its kind in the country, he claimed.

Use of IT tools to monitor the disposal system will end unauthorised dumping of garbage by truck drivers, he added.

All the trucks that carry garbage to TFBL unit would be fitted with GPS to ensure that there would not be any deviation from designated routes allotted to them.

As soon as the truck enters the processing unit, it will be parked on the weighing bridge to check quantity of garbage.

At the same time, the web cameras would capture details of the truck — like registration number, contractor’s name, garbage collection centre and so on.

The images of the truck captured by the web camera would be transferred online as soon as the truck was parked on the weigh bridge and the BBMP officials concerned could view them on their computer screens, said K.G. Nanjundappa, general manager of the TFBL.

Mr. Nanjundappa said the unit would produce vermicompost using the degradable waste and non-degradable portion would be fed into landfills.

The landfills would be used for generation of biogas, which would be used for power generation (having capacity of 1.5 mega watt) for in-house usage.

“At present, we have a capacity to store 50,000 kg of biogas. We are planning to provide power generated from biogas at our power generation unit to nearby villages and schools free of cost in future, ” said Mr. Nanjundappa.

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