The Alappuzha municipality has finalised tender for clearing mounds of legacy waste dumped at the Sarvodayapuram landfill site through bio-mining.
Municipal authorities said here on Saturday that the Kozhikode-based M.C.K. Kutty Engineering Project Private Limited had won the tender. At ₹2,99,72,800, the company had quoted the lowest price in the e-tender. “The technical committee has approved their bid. The firm will be issued a selection notice subject to ratification by the municipal council,” said Alappuzha municipal chairperson Soumya Raj.
The civic body has made a budgetary allocation of ₹3.7 crore for carrying out bio-mining at the site. As per a total station survey conducted by the municipality, the yard has 30,101.690 cubic metre of legacy waste.