New Delhi. These days South Delhi Municipal Corporation (South MCD) is doing a great job in solving the garbage problem. In the last 6 months, SDMC has done a unique work of making 1 lakh kg of organic compost manure by disposing of 7 lakh kg of wet garbage in just 2 wards. While making this manure has helped SDMC in garbage disposal, it has also saved an amount of about Rs 7,00,000 spent on garbage transportation. According to the market, the price of this manure has been estimated to be around ₹ 25,00,000.
Let us tell you that SDMC’s Aerobic compost plants of 5 TDP capacity were installed in ward no. 5 Tagore Garden and ward no. 9 Subhash Nagar. So far, ₹1,00,000 has been spent on these two plants, while MCD has prepared compost worth about 25,00,000 rupees from these plants and has also disposed of 7,00,000 kg of wet garbage in 6 months. This garbage is disposed of in the same area instead of going to the landfill site.
This compost manure was distributed to the garden department, schools and RWA of Southern Corporation.
Today on Saturday, 10000 kg of organic manure was given to the garden department from the compost plant of Tagore Garden and Subhash Nagar. So far it has been used in 156 parks and now it will be used in more parks. On this occasion, Deputy Commissioner Rahul Singh and Swachh Bharat Mission Nodal Officer Rajiv Jain and other senior officials of the corporation were present.
On this occasion, Swachh Bharat Mission Nodal Officer Rajiv Jain said that this is the lowest cost compost plant in Delhi. Here, some soil and old manure is mixed in the waste garbage to make organic fertilizer and this compost is prepared in different modules like drum composter, mesh boxes of different sizes.
Nodal officer Jain said that it takes only three weeks to prepare compost. At present, wet and dry garbage is being separated in all 29 wards of the western region.
Jain said that if the cost of organic manure is calculated at the rate of Rs 25 per kg, then its total cost comes to Rs 25 lakh, while the cost of construction of the entire compost plant is only Rs 1 lakh. This shows that this is an economical option for disposal of organic waste.
Deputy Commissioner Rahul Singh praised the project. Only through such plants will we be able to reduce the burden on landfill sites. In the last six months, we have reduced 7,00,000 kg of garbage from the landfill site. We have saved Rs 7 lakh in the cost of transporting garbage from homes to landfill sites.
These efforts are environmentally friendly and are also proving to be helpful in reducing garbage. He said that organic manure will also be distributed to the citizens for free so that they can be motivated to separate dry and wet garbage.
FIRST PUBLISHED : March 6, 2021, 21:33 IST