The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has signed a MoU with Engineers India Limited (EIL) to develop Waste to Energy and bio-methanation projects in cities with a population of million plus. In the presence of MoHUA’s Secretary Manoj Joshi and EIL’s Chairperson Ms Vartika Shukla, the MoU has been signed by MoHUA’s SBM-U & Mission Director Joint Secretary Roopa Mishra and EIL’s Executive Director RK Rathi.
MoHUA has decided to set up large-scale solid waste processing facilities in million-plus cities. There are 59 million plus cities in India like Lucknow, Kanpur, Bareilly, Nasik, Thane, Nagpur, Gwalior, Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore to name a few. For management of organic/wet fraction of municipal solid waste, bio-methanation plants have been proposed in these million-plus cities.
EIL shall assist and handhold the million-plus cities in developing such projects for larger quantum of waste integrating circularity in waste management. In the first phase, 25 million plus cities will be selected for developing large-scale process plants.
