The Tiruchi Corporation has floated a tender to establish a bio-compressed natural gas (bio-CNG) plant at the Ariyamangalam dump yard with a capacity to process about 100 tonnes per day of the organic waste generated in the city.
A sum of ₹35 crore has been sanctioned under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) 2.0 for the facility. A tender has been floated to identify a suitable contractor to construct the plant under a public-private partnership (PPP) mode for producing biogas from the waste collected from houses and commercial outlets.
The civic body has outsourced the collection, segregation, transportation, and processing of waste generated in all the 65 wards in the city to a private agency. On an average, 400-450 tonnes of municipal solid waste is collected daily from the households in the city.
