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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for a compressed biogas manufacturing facility in Bengaluru on November 13, with the project aimed at addressing the city’s solid waste management challenges.
Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya announced the development on Wednesday during an awareness programme at the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) facility in Bommanahalli. He said GAIL would establish the plant, describing it as the first facility of its kind in Karnataka and South India by a central public sector undertaking.
The plant will initially process 300 tonnes of wet waste daily, with capacity to increase to 500 tonnes.
The project aims for completion within 15 months. The facility will likely process nearly one lakh tonnes of waste annually, covering around 40 per cent of Bengaluru South’s wet waste.
Surya said the proposal was advanced through his collaboration with Bommanahalli MLA Satish Reddy over the past three to four years under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban and SATAT scheme.
The facility will convert organic waste into cooking gas and agricultural manure.
According to Surya, it will supply piped cooking gas to approximately 25,000 households and reduce daily consumption by around 900 LPG cylinders.
The resulting annual savings could reach 3.2 lakh cylinders, generating foreign exchange benefits worth Rs 27 crore.
The plant will produce around 22 tonnes of organic manure daily for farmers in and around Bengaluru.
Surya said the Centre would fund the entire Rs 160-crore project and urged the Karnataka government to work with GAIL to establish at least 10 more such facilities across the city.
During a separate media interaction, Surya criticised Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge over law enforcement priorities and raised concerns about alleged drug activities, infiltration and rising cybercrime complaints.
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