Aafrin Kidwai 
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has finally got the possession of the 3-acre land for setting up a biomedical waste-treatment plant at Brahmapuram. The land is located towards the entrance side of the Brahmapuram waste-treatment plant.
IMA, which runs IMAGE that handles all the hospital waste in the state, has been asking the government for a piece of land to set up two plants in the state, one at Kochi and other at Thiruvananthapuram. Though the state had allotted a three-acre land for IMAGE some years ago, Kochi corporation had been reluctant to hand over the land. In fact, that land was included the space allotted for the waste-to-energy plant being proposed at Brahmapuram.
The facility will have a capacity to process 20,000kg per day for a budgetary estimate of Rs 25 crore, reports The Times of India.
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