With the (NGT) cracking whips on the government andKochicorporation, the State Government is learnt to have issued an order for expediting the measures for biomining oflegacy wasteaccumulated on the solid waste treatment plant premises atBrahmapuramon a war footing. The state government has asked the corporation to award the work and facilitate biomining immediately.
Biomining is the technique of extraction and segregation of Minerals and useful materials from mounds of waste.
The local body has also started measures to construct a new solid waste treatment plant to replace the existing dilapidated plant at Brahmapuram. The local body has earmarked Rs 9 crore as the first phase of allocation for the works.
Meanwhile, the waste-to-energy plant proposed by the state government for treating the solid waste and generating electricity from it is pending for more than four years. It was the corporation which mooted the project.