Firm selected for implementing waste-to-energy plant project

Brahmapuram facility to cater for Ernakulam cluster of local bodies

The State government has entrusted the consortium of Zonta Infratech Pvt. Ltd with the implementation of the waste-to-energy (WTE) plant project at Brahmapuram.

It has given approval for a tipping fee of ₹3,550 per tonne offered by the firm for the development of the integrated solid waste management project, with a waste-to-energy plant of 300 tonnes per day capacity to be set up on public-private partnership mode on 20 acres on the land owned by the Kochi Corporation. It has also sanctioned a viability gap funding of ₹102.09 crore per tonne as per the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) guidelines. Tipping (gate) fee is the charge levied upon a given quantity of waste received at a waste processing facility.

An order approving the firm stated that the consortium had quoted a tipping fee of ₹3,672 per tonne. Officials of the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, which had invited the tenders for the project, held discussions with the company representatives to reduce the fee. After two rounds of negotiation, the bidder revised the fee to ₹3,550 per tonne, subject to the condition that a confirmation on per capita based viability gap fund of ₹102.09 crore can be made available for the project as per Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) guidelines.