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GIVEN APPROVAL: The proposed compost yard in Venkatamangalam near Vandalur.— TAMBARAM: The Union Ministry of Urban Development has given its nod for the much-awaited modern integrated compost yard for Alandur, Pallavaram and Tambaram municipalities at Venkatamangalam village near Vandalur. Speaking from New Delhi after a meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee of the Ministry concluded on Thursday evening, engineers of the State government’s Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply told The Hindu that tenders would soon be floated for the Rs.44-crore project, once the State government gave its administrative sanction. About 256 tonnes of garbage was generated everyday in the three municipalities and at present, they were dumped on sites at Pallikaranai (for Alandur), Ganapathypuram (Pallavaram) and Kannadapalayam (Tambaram). The plan was to convert these spots into transit points for collecting and shifting degradable waste to the proposed Venkatamanalam compost yard. The delay in the project was that the earlier Detailed Project Report was prepared based on “In Vessel” technology using closed chambers to compost through an aerobic process. As this system was still under research, it was not considered, engineers said. The sanctioned project would use “general composting in sheds covered at top.” While the Central government would bear 35 per cent of the project cost, the State government would contribute 15 per cent and the three municipalities’ would share the rest. The project would be executed on a public-private-partnership basis. It would have two packages. The first package — collections and disposal — would be handled by the municipalities. The second package would include construction of transit station and compost plant and development of sanitary landfill, engineers said. The project would come up on a 50-acre site, which was purchased by the Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply. Encroachments were removed in 2006 and after preliminary work, there was no progress and the latest development is a welcome measure, engineers added.
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