The Coimbatore Integrated Waste Management Company Private Limited, which manages secondary waste collection and processing at the Vellalore dump yard, has said that the Coimbatore Corporation owed it Rs. 19 crore.
In a release here, the company said that despite reminders to the Coimbatore Corporation, Commissioner, the Secretary, and Water Supply Department, no steps have been taken to clear the dues.
The company was responding to a report that appeared in these columns on June 22.
The corporation paid Rs. 58 lakh in 2014 after a technical committee from the Government College of Technology inspected the waste processing mechanism in Vellalore.
The company said that it needed compensation from the corporation for the damage caused to the transit station on Sathyamangalam Road in Ganapathy.
A portion of it was demolished to take up the Gandhipuram flyover construction without informing the company.
The result was that the 17 m of the site that handled 200 to 250 tonnes of waste a day was taken over. The investments made to improve infrastructure had gone waste.
The company accused the corporation of not appointing an independent engineer to oversee the project, and handing over the waste after segregating at source.
The capacity of the waste processing plant in Vellalore was 400 tonnes a day but the civic body was sending 900 tonnes of non segregated waste a day. The civic body was engaging another contractor to fill the land.
