World Bank to study Delhi's waste-to-energy plant
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New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) The waste-to-energy plant coming up in Delhi has been chosen by the World Bank for a case study, an official said Friday.
The decision was taken at the C40 Cities Mayor's Summit, held in Sao Paulo in Brazil from May 31 to June 2, a Delhi government official said. Chief Secretary P.K. Tripathi was also present at the summit.
'Huge landfills cause environmental problem and we need to convert the waste into energy which will be an addition to energy sector and reduce the damage to environment. It is good as the World Bank has identified the capital of India as a case study for converting waste into energy,' the official told IANS.
India's first waste-to-energy plant, Timarpur Okhla Municipal Solid Waste Management plant, will start operations from July 2011. It is a private-public partnership project of the the Jindal ITF Ecopolis and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
The project is spread over a two-acre landfill in Okhla in south Delhi. About 70 percent of the construction is complete.
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