Mysuru ZP to set up over a dozen waste processing centers

The Mysuru district administration and zilla panchayat are planning to set up multiple waste processing units on the city’s outskirts.

The ZP has received Rs 2.1 crore under Swachh Bharat mission to set up such units in more than a dozen gram panchayats under the limits of Chamundeshwari assembly segment covering both urban and rural pockets.

Garbage processing units may come up in GPs like Harohalli, Rammanahalli, Gangralchatra, Dhanagalli, Jayapura, Doora, Varakodu, Naganhalli, Varuna Beerihundi, Siddalingapura, Maratikyathanahalli, Marballi, MB Halli, Doddamaragowdnahalli, Hosahundi, Ilavala, Koorgalli, and Alanahalli. All these units will treat dry and wet waste.

Local panchayat development officers have been instructed to initiate the tendering process to set up such units after identifying land and buying tippers for door to door and street to street garbage collection reports The Times of India.

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