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India-based NTPC Ltd. (National Thermal Power Corporation) is inviting companies to place bids for new WtE projects under the government’s Swachh Bharat programme. The Swachh Bharat campaign serves the aim of promoting cleanliness and sustainability…
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The local government of Pratapgarh City and company Wonder Cement have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the co-incineration of the area’s solid waste at the firm’s cement plant in Nimbahera, Pratapgarh City, Rajasthan.…
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As the WtE plant in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, is still not functional, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the plant’s private operator to take the garbage of Shimla to the Ambuja cement plant in…
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The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation will commission the new AD plant in Puikhadi, Maharashtra, next week. According to The Times of India, the plant should process agricultural waste with a capacity of 5 tons of waste…
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As reported by The Hindu, the Indian capital is speeding up the process of increasing its incineration capacities. In accordance with Delhi’s administration, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation aims at building two new WtE plants…
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The Punjab government has been ordered by India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) to support the operator of the Bathinda WtE project in order to expand the RDF facility by another WtE unit. Moreover, the NGT…
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Some days after a part of the Ghazipur landfill in Delhi collapsed and killed two people, Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal has ordered the municipal corporations to increase their waste processing by using the existing capacity as…
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According to The Times of India, the Devguradia WtE project in the state of Madhya Pradesh should be completed by 2019. Under the project, a facility with an electricity generation capacity of 20 MW is…
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A few days after the collapse of the Ghazipur landfill, one of Delhi’s four landfills (state of Uttar Pradesh), the local government of the city of Greater Noida stated to be aiming at accelerating the…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has been allotted a 50-acre expanse of land in Tekhand, Delhi. According to The Times of India, this will be used for the development of a scientific landfill along with…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to appoint IIT-Roorkee to conduct a techno-commercial analysis at their new Waste-to-Energy plant in Ramtekdi, Hadapsar, in the state of Maharashtra, at a cost of INR 8.26 lakh…
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As was stated by The Economic Times, British company Biomass Power Ltd. plans to invest in several new WtE projects in the Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Biomass Power Ltd.…
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A public hearing on the future of the Brahmapuram WtE project (also known as the Kochi WtE project) has been held on 25 August and only showed little results. As reported by The Hindu, the…
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As reported by The National Herald, the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication is planning to move its campus to Bishankedi to construct a nearby gaushala, a shelter for cows. According to the…
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According to The Times of India, due to an almost two-year-long delay in the implementation of the Secunderabad RDF project, the constructor of the project, PEC Limited, is now considering to pull out of the…
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According to The Times of India, the Kochi WtE project seems to be facing another delay, as the land on which the new WtE facility is to be built, seems to consist of paddy land…
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The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has opened a new facility to recycle construction and demolition (C&D) waste in Rohini, North West Delhi, as was reported by The Hindu. At the site, C&D waste is…
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According to Bloomberg, plans for a new WtE plant in Hyderabad, state of Telangana, seem to move forward. Indian company Sri Venkateswara Green Power Projects Ltd. has recently acquired a majority share of 51% of…
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation projects a new AD plant in cooperation with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Najafgarh, Southwest Delhi. According to The Hindustan Times, the facility should process cow dung from surrounding…
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India is currently generating about 66 MW of electricity from municipal solid waste (MSW) daily. According to Energy Infra Post, the country hopes to increase this figure to 676 MW soon. Presently, the country has…
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The Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Department of West Bengal projects a new facility near Dhapa to convert food waste and upgrade the produced biogas to BioCNG and Bio Carbon Dioxide. The project should also…
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According to The Pune Mirror, residents of Ramtekdi have filed a petition with the Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) requesting to shut down Rochem Separations Systems Ltd’s waste-to-green energy plant. They claimed…
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A few months after the announcement that construction was to begin by May 2017, construction works on the Kochi WtE project still do not seem to be underway. The companies that are set to carry…
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According to the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), federal state of Maharashtra, the Bhandewadi Waste-to-Energy plant is expected to be completed within two years. The plant would be a joint venture of NMC, Essel Infraprojects Limited…
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A new waste plant with an AD unit will be constructed at the central railway station in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The proposal worth INR 4.4 million (EUR 58,289) raised by Western Railway has already been approved…
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Residents of the Bandhwari area, Haryana, have voiced their concerns over the local government’s plan to let a Chinese firm reconstruct the dysfunctional WtE plant in the city. An official meeting between the residents’ associations…
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The Bareilly Municipal Corporation (BMC), Uttar Pradesh, plans an AD plant using animal dung from stray and pet animals, according to The Times of India. While a pilot project is already being planned, the location…
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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is seeking the involvement of private companies to deploy their expertise for the remediation of the Kapuluppada landfill. The waste disposal site is located in a fast-growing port city,…
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The federal state of Kerala plans to conduct a waste survey between August 6 and 13, 2017 with the aim of using the data generated in planning projects on waste management. According to The News…
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A few months after Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC) had terminated its contract with the Jaypee Group, the operator of the local RDF plant, the firm nevertheless seems to be involved in a new WtE project…
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In order to boost the faster implementation of new WtE projects all over the country, the Indian government has set aside the Green Clearance regulation, which had been an essential part of the approval process…
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After having opened the tender process around 2 weeks ago, the local authority of Bangalore, the Bruhat Bengalaru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has only received a few bids for the 5 planned WtE projects so far.…
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Several biogas plants are planned to be built in a proposed film city area to be built in the federal state of Bihar. As reported by The Times of India, Bihar Infrastructure Department Authority has…
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According to Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, 10 WtE projects, which are currently being implemented, shall be operational by the end of March 2018. This plan concerns projects in the following locations: Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Tadepalligudem,…
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The government of Haryana announced plans for new biogas plants in all over 400 gaushalas (protective shelters for cows) in the state for utilizing cow dung. First they focus on the construction of biogas plants…
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The Telangana government banned open burning of waste materials in open land and landfill sites with a violation charge of Rs 5000 for ‘simple burning’ and Rs 25,000 for bulk waste burning, according to The…
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The government of Haryana announced plans for new biogas plants in all over 400 gaushalas (protective shelters for cows) in the state for utilizing cow dung. First they focus on the construction of biogas plants…
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The Waste-to-Energy plant in the city of Panaji, Indian state of Goa, has increased its throughput remarkably over the first eleven months of operation, as reported by Nyoooz. The facility processes around 120 tpd of…
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The Waste-to-Energy plant in the city of Panaji, Indian state of Goa, has increased its throughput remarkably over the first eleven months of operation. According to Nyoooz, the facility processes around 120 tpd of waste.…
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As was stated by the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC), the location for the new WtE project has finally been identified. It will be the waste dumping site at Galand Village, close to the town of…
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According to the Daily Times, the Punjab government is seeking investors from China for participating in the restructuring of its urban water and sanitation system as well as improving municipal solid waste management. For this…
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Almost one year after the announcement of the project, new information has been given on the joined RDF project carried out by the cities of Gurugram and Faridabad, state of Haryana. Reportedly, a new waste…
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The Indian Government plans to intensify efforts in municipal solid waste management, Daily Kashmir Images reports. The Niti Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India ) has drawn a broader framework with a three-year action agenda…
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Even though Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) had been signed in 2014, there is still no progress on the sister-city agreement between the Indian city of Ahmedabad and the Chinese city of Guangzhou, DNA India reports.…
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Plans provide for setting up a new AD facility in the city of Sonipat, Haryana. As stated by The Statesman, the urban areas of Haryana are divided into 15 clusters. The plant should be erected…
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After having been defunct for several months due to huge piles of RDF and compost, 4 out of 6 waste treatment plants in the Bengaluru area, state of Karnataka, are up and running again, as…
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As was reported by local news source NYOOOZ, the local government of Tiruchi has decided for a company which is to carry out the new RDF project in Tiruchi, state of Tamil Nadu. The planned…
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The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) opens a bid for waste-to-energy plants at already operational waste segregation units, as reported by Bangalore Mirror. The plants will be located at Lingadheeranahalli, Koodlu, and Kannahalli with a…
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The biomass power plant in Chilakapalem, India, operated by Varam Power Projects, was shut down because the government stopped purchasing energy from the plant. According to the government, the reason for that decision is an…
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The Municipal Corporation at Pimpri Chinchwad in the State of Maharashtra has failed to initiate the WtE project at the Moshi garbage depot even one-and-a-half years after it was proposed. Over the past 15 years,…
