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Cleanup work on more than 7. 5 lakh metric tons (MT) of decaying inherited waste at the Dadumajra landfill since 2005 is expected to begin within a month.
At the time of awarding the work, the municipal corporation (MC) ended the company on Friday.
Of the 3 shortlisted companies, Aakanksha Enterprises had submitted the lowest bid of ₹Rs 79. 68 crore and after negotiations, it was reduced to the estimated allocation charge of ₹Rs 68 million.
A senior UT official said: “As the bid was 17% higher than the estimated charge in the tender, MC negotiated with the bidder to bring it down. The effects of the tender were presented to the technical committee at the state level, which gave the green light. “soft on Friday.
The other two corporations had submitted much higher bids of ₹ 122 million rupees and ₹ 126 million rupees. Also in MC’s last attempt, bids exceeded ₹100 crore.
“Within 15 days all the procedures for the award of the paintings will be completed and the company will start the paintings within a month. The deadline to finish the order is 3 years, it deserves to be completed much earlier, “he said. the officer said.
The Dadumajra landfill was one of the central disorders in last year’s elections for civic bodies. The site has been blamed for serious physical disorders in the giant population living around it.
Over the past 15 years, the landfill has witnessed, on average, 30 fires per year.
In the past six years alone, about 40 lakh liters of water have been used to extinguish fires at the site. According to a rough estimate, this amount is enough to satisfy the daily water desires of about 16,000 people.
The site is also one of the reasons for city Beautiful’s poor functionality in swachh Survekshan’s last two graphics.
25 acres buried a mountain of garbage
A total of 12. 5 lakh MT of legacy waste will be disposed of at the Dadumajra landfill on more than 25 acres of land.
Of these, five LAKH TMs dating from before 2005 are bio-mined as a component of a Smart City assignment. Originally scheduled to be completed through May 2021, the assignment now has an August 2023 deadline, though officials say it is expected to be reached through December 2022.
The mining allocation of ₹33 crore was presented with wonderful fanfare in December 2019 through the then deputy managing chairman of UT, Singh Badnore, in the presence of Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher. Approximately five MT lakh (80%) of this te have already been removed.
The allocation of ₹68 crore under swachh Bharat Mission 2. 0 will target the remaining 7. 5 lakh MT of legacy waste dumped in Dadumajra after 2005.
While the generation of counterfeit waste from Chandigarh is around 550-600 MT, most is dumped into landfills without treatment.
The bulky digitized ticketing mechanism and lack of physical ticketing at several monuments protected through the Archaeological Survey of India in the nation’s capital are proving to be a challenge for stopover visitors who don’t own a smartphone or are unfamiliar with the technology. Several monuments in the city lately only have online tickets, HT discovered a scale in seven monuments on Tuesday.
A BJP worker was shot dead Thursday by unidentified assailants in a showroom in Gurugram, Haryana. Khatana, chairman of the BJP’s local unit market committee.
The Rudrapur scrap yard blamed for the fuel leak that brought 37 other people to hospital on Tuesday told police babloo Kashyap had released the fuel to empty a discarded cylinder bought for Rs 4,100, police said on Thursday. The scrap metal broker, known through police as Babloo Kashyap, was arrested by police on Wednesday. He planned to sell the bottle after releasing the fuel overnight. 44 runners were prosecuted for crimes.
An 86-year-old man died of a central attack at his home in the Rainbow Drive Layout domain of Sarjapura Road in Bangalore after his circle of relatives were unable to take him to hospital as the entire domain had been flooded due to heavy rain. Aam Aadmi Party Mahadevapura Assembly Speaker Ashok Mruthyunjaya asked local BJP MP Aravind Limbavali who is to blame for the loss of life.
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