Gurugram to loan money to Faridabad for waste collection

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) will incur expenses for waste collection in Faridabad, where the lockdown has further hit cash-strapped local civic body’s revenues.

The Hindustan Times reports that the Faridabad civic body was unable to pay the tipping fees to the waste collection concessionaire Ecogreen Private Limited for April. Subsequently, the Haryana government directed MCG to pay tipping fees to Ecogreen on behalf of the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) from this month.

In August 2017, the MCG, MCF, and Haryana government signed a joint-agreement with Ecogreen for the door-to-door collection of waste in Gurugram and Faridabad. As part of the agreement, the two civic bodies have to pay Ecogreen ₹1,000 for every tonne of waste collected as ‘tipping fees’ on a monthly basis.

According to Ecogreen officials, they collect around 1,200 tonnes of waste from Gurugram every day and 900 tonnes from Faridabad. The MCF pays around ₹2.5-3 crore for waste collection in Faridabad and MCG pays ₹3.5-4 crore every month, depending on the final load.