Reply by Municipal Corporation, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh on waste management, 28/08/2023
Reply by Municipal Corporation, Gorakhpur in Original Application No 613 of 2022 in the matter of Ram Milan Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 28/08/2023.
The matter related to waste management in the city of Gorakhpur.
For the remediation of legacy waste management of Ekla Bandha site, two trommel machines have been installed at the site. "Windrow and weighbridges foundation has been completed and bio-mining is in progress and trommel machines are processing the waste 100 tonne per hour". Till now 35000 MT of legacy waste has been processed. The Municipal Corporation, Gorakhpur is trying to complete all the processes up to December 2023.
In addition, the corporation is constructing a processing plant having capacity of 500 TPD for processing of dry and wet waste at village Suthni - the project cost of the integrated solid waste processing plant is Rs 2840.16 lakh. Appromiately 75 per cent of civil work has been completed. Bio-CNG plant is also under construction for processing of wet waste of 200 TPD capacity.
Under the National Clean Air Program Rs 2.31 crore has been sanctioned for construction of 200 TPD capacity for the garbage transfer station near Lal Diggi. Municipal Corporation Gorakhpur is constructing a construction and demolition waste processing plant having capacity of 50 TPD for processing of construction and demolition waste at Mahesra.
The corporation has installed a shredding and compressing machine in the premises of a material recovery facility with a plant capacity of 5 TPD. 5 more MRF plants are undergoing construction in different locations of Gorakhpur city to recycle and recover materials.
Note: The report was uploaded to the NGT site, October 4, 2023.