According to reports, by the end of this year, Delhi will have its second waste-to-energy plant generating electricity at the landfill near Ghazipur. A similar plant, Timarpur Okhla Waste to Energy plant, sited in the vicinity of a residential colony and a hospital, has started generation since the beginning of this year.
The Delhi government is buoyant that it has finally found a solution to tackling the ever-increasing piles of waste. No government wants to grapple with millions of tonnes of waste dumped on prime land, polluting the groundwater and the air and threatening to multiply.
Delhi, with limited space, views waste-to-energy plants as a win-win solution. “Energy production is incidental. Our main concern is waste,” says Shakti Sinha, Principal Secretary, Power, summing up the government’s perception of these plants.
“The plants are absolutely safe,” he asserts. “We use state-of-the-art technology, and these are run as per the European Union norms…
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One such unit was established in Masudpur in Delhi in the year 1980 in a different manner. It was community biogas plant with attachment of latrines of number of families producing gas from night soil and supplying back to their kitchen. But it was closed down since Government desired so.