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• The Chennai Corporation will commence power generation from waste in a year, Mayor Saidai S.Duraisamy said here on Thursday.It will call for expression of interest for the project and the civic body is hopeful that suitable technology for the power generation would soon be identified, he said. The Corporation also has plans to change the existing garbage transfer process to improve conservancy operations in the city, he added.Mr.Duraisamy said this while launching the conservancy operations of Chennai Municipal Solid Waste Pvt. Ltd., a Special Purpose Vehicle owned by Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd. that has got the new conservancy contract.

• The company would have the responsibility of conservancy operations in Kodambakkam, Teynampet and Adyar zones for seven years.The Chennai Corporation would pay a tipping fee of Rs.1,469 per tonne of waste collected and transported by the company.A total of 4,000 workers, 1,500 tricycles, 3,000 bins of 1,100-litre capacity each, 2,200 bins (120 litre capacity each), 67 compactors, nine emergency vehicles, nine green waste vehicles and three mechanical sweepers would be deployed for the conservancy operations in the three zones.On Thursday, the company started operations in five wards in the Teynampet zone. The company would extend its services to all the three zones by January 30.Awareness campaign would begin in the residential localities to make residents cooperate with the conservancy operator for making the city cleaner, the Mayor said.

• The private conservancy operator has also been asked to make changes to the micro plan of action as the civic body has decided to close down garbage transfer stations in the city.A group of garbage bins would be placed in specially designed enclosures in residential localities and garbage would be taken directly to dumpyards, Mr.Duraisamy said. Corporation Commissioner P.W.C.Davidar and executives of Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd. participated.

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