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The government has given approval for setting up of Bio-CNG plant at Suthni in Sahajanwan of Gorakhpur district. The setting up of Bio CNG plant from organic waste included in solid waste has been handed over to Air Enviro, a company manufacturing Bio CNG plant in Indore in PPP mode.
On Wednesday, the Committee of Secretaries headed by the Chief Secretary has given the green signal to the Expression of Interest (EoI) invited for the establishment of the plant. An amount of about Rs 150 crore will be spent on this plant.
It is expected that soon Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will transfer MoUs for Bio-CNG plants in Lucknow, Ghaziabad and Varanasi, including Gorakhpur. The plant being built at Suthni in Gorakhpur will be constructed as a Bio-CNG plant on the instructions of the Chief Minister.
After receiving the application under the EOI, Municipal Commissioner Avinash Kumar Singh had sent the report to the government on October 1 with the approval of the company. Under the scheme, the capacity of Bio-CNG plants in Lucknow and Ghaziabad will be 300-300 TPD, the capacity of plants in Gorakhpur and Varanasi will be 200 TPD.
With this, 27,000 kg of bio-CNG will be produced daily. Two lakh tonnes of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas will be reduced annually from these plants. Municipal Corporation Chief Engineer Sanjay Chauhan said that earlier this mixed waste plant was being set up in Suthni, but after the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, it is being developed as a Bio-CNG plant.
Awareness program will be run: Municipal Commissioner
The Municipal Commissioner informed that awareness programs will be conducted in all the wards for segregation of waste. RWAs, NGOs, Clean Environment Promotion Committee and Mohalla Committees will be linked. There will be proper management of all the resources for sending the wet waste to the processing plant. Distribution of green-blue dustbins, door to door segregated garbage collection vehicles will be increased. Air Enviro representatives will also provide technical support. With this step, Gorakhpur Municipal Corporation will get freedom from wet waste, it will also get a new source of additional income from waste.
