KOCHI: The state government has accorded sanction to the agency, which is entrusted with setting up waste-to-energy treatment plant at Brahmapuram, to collect tipping fee of Rs 3,550 per tonne of waste.
The amount is to develop the plant, install waste bins at secondary collection points and transport waste to the plant and treat it.
Kerala state industries development corporation had requested the government to accord sanction to the consortium led by Zonta Infratech Pvt ltd to collect the tipping fee , with a confirmation on maximum per capita based viability gap funding (VGF) of Rs 102.09 crore per tonne as per Swachh Bharat Mission guidelines for the development of the project.
But the order does not say whether the local body or the government will give the amount to the agency.
“We are planning to make all the municipalities in the district part of the project. There will be a funding mechanism regarding the tipping fee. We have to look at the existing cost local bodies spend for treating waste and the environmental cost due to dumping of waste in public places and water bodies,” said a KSIDC official on condition of anonymity.
“We spend around Rs 80 lakh per month to transport waste from various parts of the city and segregate it at the plant. Corporation gets Rs 20 lakh from other local bodies as tipping fee,” said corporation standing committee chairman T K Ashraf.
“The tipping feeis to recoup the expenditure we will have to meet for installing the plant and running it for 25 years,” said an official in the company.
