MARGAO
Even before the Council could make the payment of Rs 86.51 lakh to Ms Hindustan Waste Treatment Pvt Ltd for remediating the disposing of the waste from the Sonsodo waste treatment plant, last year, the civic body is gearing up to spend tax payers money amounting to Rs 1.64 crore for a similar operation “ carting and remediating the waste stacked inside the Sonsodo plant.
With things coming back to full circle at the Sonsodo waste plant for want of any treatment worth its name, the plant is almost saturated with waste, with the civic body only compacting the waste inside for the moment to make way for fresh daily waste.
The Goan understands that the MMC has prepared estimates amounting to Rs 1.64 crore to cart away and remediate existing waste pegged around 7,000 cubic metres inside the Sonsodo plant. Though the MMC had forwarded the proposal and estimates for approval of the Director of Urban Development with a request to permit the civic body to utilise funds under the 14th Finance Commission, the Urban Development Director has now told the MMC to float the tender, promising to accord the approval.
“The MMC would soon float a tender inviting bidders and contractors to cart away the existing waste pegged around 7,000 cubic metres inside the plant. The civic body wants to rid the plant of the existing waste to take up treatment of the daily waste with the help of a contractor,” informed a senior official.
