When 39-year-old Anup Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party was elected mayor by a single vote last January, he promised to pull Chandigarh out of its garbage mess, introduce smart parking in all 89 lots, cut water charges and develop villages in the Union Territory. While Gupta takes credit for approving the integrated waste management plant at Dadumajra and smart …
With the waste processing plant at Dadumajra operating at only 10% capacity, the Chandigarh municipal corporation is working on a two-pronged strategy to meet the solid waste processing needs of the city. “For meeting the city’s immediate needs of waste processing, our effort will be to improve the existing plant,” said KK Yadav, MC commissioner. The National Institute of Technical …