Solid Waste processing plant to be set up in Perungudi.
Posted on: 25/Mar/2010 2:44:44 AM
Chennai Corporation is embarking on a plan to set up an Integrated Solid waste Processing plant at the Perungudi dump yard. The project will be over 30 acres of 125 acre Pallikaranai marshland. This was announced by Rajesh Lakhoni, The Commissioner, and Chennai Corporation. In his detailed presentation to the public in Public hearing event on the project on Tuesday, he explained that the project cost is estimated to be around Rs 50 Crores. He explained that what would come in as garbage would go out after processing as Refuse Derived Fuel at the facility. Rajesh Lakhoni allying concerns of the public said that the RDF would be sent to cement kilns where it would be burnt along with 95% normal fuel. He further said that the facility would have an in-house effluent treatment plant facility to reuse the leach ate formed during composing. The public especially residents of Thoraipakkam represented by Thoraipakkam ladies club were still not satisfied; even complaint that they were not heard properly. The collector of Kancheepuram District presided and Mayor M Subramanian participated.
The Chennai Corporation should have given more opportunities to the people who are directly affected. Certainly Pallikaranai marshland is not the place considering the speed at which city developing. What is be seen as an outskirt now will become a part of the Metropolitan city in the next one decade or so. The dry lands beyond Chenglepet probable is the place , which will also help in developing the dry land into farm lands as we need more farm lands to produce more vegetations to meet the demand fast growing population.
