The opposition councillors in the Kochi corporation have come up against a public private PARTNERSHIP (PPP) project to set up a garbage treatment plant and demanded that the new plant should be funded by the .
The state government has designed a project titled KeralaSolid Waste Management Project to resolve the issue of waste management, said opposition leaderAntony Kureethra.
World Bank has given $300 million to the state government for the project. The state government should allot funds for constructing the 100-tonne per day (TPD) solid waste treatment plant from Kerala Solid Waste Management Project, said Kureethra.