Nod not taken? Bandhwari waste tenders put on hold

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Gurgaon: The urban local bodies (ULB) department of the Haryana government has directed MCG to put on hold all the tendering process for bio-remediation and bio-mining of legacy waste at the Bandhwari landfill site with immediate effect. The reason stated behind the step is that the civic body did not take any administrative approval before floating these tenders. However, the MCG officials claim that approvals were taken and the process has been done in accordance with the action plan submitted to the NGT.
MCG had last year given the contract of clearing and processing 2 lakh tonnes of waste at Bandhwari to a private firm. On similar lines, MCG also recently floated two tenders of Rs 16 crore each to give contracts to private firms to clear and process the waste dumped at the landfill site, for which the ULB has raised an objection. The tenders were floated on the risk and cost of MCG’s waste management concessionaire, Ecogreen.
MCG also wrote to the ULB department on January 26 stating that the civic body had taken an administrative approval to spend Rs 256 crore on the project. “We had taken administrative approval, as well as rate approval, and now have sent our comments to the director of urban local bodies. The tenders were floated in accordance with the action plan submitted to the NGT,” said Vaishali Sharma, additional commissioner, MCG.
The MCG further said that they have been given a deadline to clear the waste, failing which they will be penalised by the NGT. “We have been given a deadline to clear 35 lakh tonne of legacy waste from Bandhwari landfill site by July this year, failing which a heavy penalty can be imposed by the NGT. We have so far cleared around 8 lakh tonnes and the tenders had been floated to expedite the work of clearing and processing legacy waste,” said Anil Mehta, consultant-engineer and Swachh Bharat Mission, MCG.
According to directions sent by the ULB department to MCG, Ecogreen, on January 13 submitted a complaint challenging the civic body’s decision to float fresh tenders for the waste processing at Bandhwari landfill site on the risk and cost of Ecogreen, which implies that the concessionaire will have to bear the cost of these tenders or projects.
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