he Coimbatore Corporation will soon engage another contractor to manage the waste that reaches the Vellalore dump yard, Mayor P. Rajkumar said here on Wednesday.
Speaking to journalists after inspecting the yard, he said the Coimbatore Integrated Waste Management Company Private Limited could process only 400 tonnes waste a day and it was unable to handle additional waste the civic body took to the yard.
At present the Corporation collected around 850 tonnes of waste a day. The Corporation dumps the remaining waste in the Vellaore yard, which has a mix of both degradable and non-degradable waste.
A private agency with expertise in processing the waste to generate power approached the Corporation. The civic body will study the agency’s proposal, forward it to the State Government for approval and then engage the contractor. Mr. Rajkumar also said that the Corporation would expedite the scientific closure process and the landfill process.
The Corporation scouting for a new contractor comes at a time when it is locked in a legal battle with the Coimbatore Integrated Waste Management Company Pvt. Ltd.
The latter took the civic body to court demanding payments that the civic body had stopped for nearly two years.
Corporation sources said that the civic body stopped payment as it felt the company had not processed the waste. The company responded by saying that the Corporation had not supplied the waste in a segregated fashion, as initially agreed upon.
At present the Corporation collects around 850 tonnes
of waste a day
