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More information has been shared on the AD project in Mumbai, which was proposed by Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The MoU has been signed by the partners. The future facility…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticized the poor monitoring and delays in obtaining clearances for a waste-to-energy plant project at the Deonar landfill in Mumbai. Only 10% of the work on the project…
Aafrin Kidwai
The BMC is preparing to address the issue of construction waste removal proactively. A request for proposals has been made by the Solid Waste Management (SWM) division to hire 16 JCB machines, 35 dumpers, and…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Mumbai civic body has sent 9,400 plaster of Paris (POP) Ganpati idols that were left on the seashore after the Ganesh Chaturthi festival for recycling. This is the first time that the civic organization…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is constructing nine mini waste-to-energy or biomethanisation plants with a daily capacity of two metric tonnes (MT) of organic waste. These will be located throughout Mumbai with the goal of…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Mumbai civic body (MCGM) has formed a committee to decide on the capacity of the second waste-to-energy plant to be built at the Deonar dumping ground. The amount of waste created daily may alter…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has released the new Mumbai Climate Action Plan (MCAP) towards the goal of building a climate-resilient city. MCAP is a policy document to adopt an evidence-based planning approach and mobilize resources to…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced an increase of 250 percent in its expenditure on solid waste management, as part of its ambitious ‘SWM vision 2030’ campaign. The campaign aims to create a favourable…
Aafrin Kidwai
Mumbai’s first Waste To Energy (WTE) plant at Deonar has received Environment Clearance (EC) from the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC). Now, the BMC has approached Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB)…
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A Mumbai-based start-up is developing waste management solutions for the City of Mumbai, Maharashtra, according to a report by The Times of India. The solutions are aimed at bio and medical waste as well as…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun issuing notices to housing societies and other bulk waste generators which are not segregating and treating waste at the source. During the lockdown, segregation had taken a back…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) plans to involve waste picker organizations for segregation activity at waste unloading sites. The corporation has invited Expression of Interest (EOI) seeking response from registered waste picker organizations…
Aafrin Kidwai
The closure of the Mulund dumping ground in Mumbai is delayed once again, ostensibly due to a shortage of labourers during the lockdown during pandemic and the monsoon. Mulund has Mumbai’s second largest dumping ground…
Aafrin Kidwai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to appoint a Project Management Consultant (PMC) to supervise the construction of Mumbai’s first waste to energy (WtE) plant at Deonar. The consultant will be responsible for approving the…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
Two years after the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) tasked Ms. Biomining India Pvt Ltd to clear the Mulund dumping site, only 10% of the waste has been treated. In 2018, the contractor was…
Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has withdrawn a fleet of recently launched dumpers following complaints from sanitation workers. According to a Free Press Journal report, the staff had submitted written complaints to senior authorities. Lack of training…
Aafrin Kidwai
Recent press reports suggest that revenue losses in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have prompted it to revise its revenue target for the 2020-21 period, which will also impact its expenditures in the solid waste…
Aafrin Kidwai
Latest Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) data suggests that after an increase in bio-medical waste generation across Mumbai over four straight months, the daily average in July has fallen by 38 per cent over the high…
Aafrin Kidwai
With 102 of its staff members succumbing to Covid-19, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is perhaps the worst affected among government agencies battling the pandemic in the country. Till July 11, a total of 2,198 BMC workers had…
Aafrin Kidwai
Almost half the Covid-19 waste generated from quarantine centres, containment zones and self-isolation centres in the city is disposed of unsafely, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) solid waste management department. According to…
Aafrin Kidwai
After a week of lockdown, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started distributing identification cards to ragpickers, who were not allowed to do their work under the essential services category. The work of collection and segregation…
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After several hurdles, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced that it finally managed to get 3 companies to bid for the WtE project in Deonar. One of them is from Europe and two are…
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A tender by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for several MRFs in Mumbai has only been partly successful. Contractors have not applied to set up plants in the western and eastern suburbs of the city,…
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According to the Indian Express, Bombay High Court has extended the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) permit to dispose waste at the Deonar landfill until 31 December 2019. As reported in March 2018, the 600 tpd…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has extended the bidding deadline for the WtE project in Deonar by another month, as reported by The Indian Express. This comes after the four bidders interested in the project…
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The status of the WtE project in Deonar, Mumbai, remains unclear. Even though the bidding process for the project had been opened, the project obviously failed to attract any bidders, the Mumbai Mirror reports. The…
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According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, the implementation of the planned WtE plant in the district Deonar is likely to take 3 years. MC’S plan is to treat around…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning a WtE plant in Deonar, a suburb of Mumbai, as Mid Day reported. BMC is likely to shut down its Mulund dumping ground in July this year and…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced to have started the tender process for its 3,000 tpd Deonar WtE plant. As said, the project should be realised under a DBC (Design, Build and Commissioning) scheme…
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According to the Brihanmumbai Corporation (BMC), the tender process for the planned Mumbai Deonar WtE plant is to start in the last week of October. As reported by the Indian Express, a feasibility study for…
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As a Detailed Project Report (DPR) is currently being prepared, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is looking to hold a tender in June to find an operator for its planned Deonar WtE facility. BMC previously…
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According to DNA India, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) currently plans to appoint Tata Consulting Engineers Limited for carrying out a feasibility study for the WtE project at the landfill site in Deonar, a suburb…
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is inviting international companies to submit proposals for three WtE facilities with a capacity of 1,000 metric tons per day each. Mumbai generates about 6,500 tons of waste per day…
