Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for a compressed biogas manufacturing facility in Bengaluru on November 13.
Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya announced the development on Wednesday, highlighting the project’s potential to tackle the city’s growing solid waste management challenges.
Speaking at an awareness event organised at the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) facility in Bommanahalli, Surya said GAIL would establish the proposed plant.
He described it as the first facility of its kind in Karnataka and South India by a central public sector undertaking.
The plant will initially handle 300 tonnes of wet waste daily, with scope to increase its processing capacity to 500 tonnes.
The project has a 15-month completion target and aims to process nearly one lakh tonnes of waste annually.
Surya said the facility would manage approximately 40 per cent of Bengaluru South’s wet waste.
He credited his collaboration with Bommanahalli MLA Satish Reddy over the past three to four years for advancing the proposal under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban and SATAT scheme.
Biogas Supply to Benefit 25,000 Households
The facility will convert collected organic waste into cooking gas and agricultural manure through a circular economy model.
Surya said the project would supply piped cooking gas to around 25,000 households.
It could eliminate the daily use of approximately 900 LPG cylinders, translating into annual savings of nearly 3.2 lakh cylinders and foreign exchange benefits worth ₹27 crore.
The plant will also manufacture approximately 22 tonnes of organic manure daily for farmers in and around Bengaluru.
Surya said the Centre would bear the entire ₹160-crore project cost. He also called on the Karnataka government to partner with GAIL to develop at least 10 additional facilities across the city.
During the media interaction, Surya separately accused Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge of neglecting law enforcement concerns while focusing on the RSS.
He also raised concerns about alleged drug-related activities, infiltration and increasing cybercrime complaints.
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