Waste treatment plants will soon turn wealth generating units, says MA&UD Minister Narayana

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The erstwhile   YSRCP authorities  had not lone  levied garbage taxation  connected  radical   but besides  near  down  153 lakh tonnes of waste, says MA&UD Minister P. Narayana.

The erstwhile YSRCP authorities had not lone levied garbage taxation connected radical but besides near down 153 lakh tonnes of waste, says MA&UD Minister P. Narayana. | Photo Credit: File Photo

Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development P. Narayana has stated that coagulated discarded attraction successful the State volition get a boost with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu giving the go-ahead for the constitution of 107 processing units crossed the State by the extremity of July, astir with an outlay of ₹300 crore.

Speaking to the media aft inspecting the Donthali dumping gait successful Nellore Rural, wherever a processing works installation enactment was going on, Mr. Narayana said 1 lakh tonnes of bequest discarded successful Donthali would beryllium cleared by the extremity of this month, wherever the Jindal radical was coming up with a waste-to-energy plant.

The works would beryllium commissioned wrong 2 years, with a capableness to pain the coagulated discarded generated wrong the vicinity of 100 km each day.

The erstwhile government, “lacking vision,” had not lone levied garbage taxation connected the radical but besides near down 153 lakh tonnes of waste, the Minister charged.

Similarly, the plants sanctioned by the TDP authorities betwixt 2014-19 were ignored by the successor YSRCP regime. Had they been completed, the plants would person incinerated 7,000 tonnes of coagulated discarded crossed the State each day, helium said.

“The NDA government, aft coming to power, has cleared 130 tonnes of garbage successful 2 years and the remaining 23 lakh tonnes volition beryllium cleared and processed by July,” helium said. As connected date, 2,800 tonnes of garbage was being utilized to make powerfulness successful Guntur and Visakhapatnam. The authorities brought successful six much waste-to-energy plants, which would beryllium commissioned crossed the State.

The attraction plants would go a wealth-generating infrastructure soon, helium observed. Nellore Municipal Corporation Commissioner Y. Nandan and different officials took part.

Published - June 07, 2026 08:24 p.m. IST

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