{"id":8831,"date":"2013-03-14T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=8831"},"modified":"2013-03-14T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:56:08","slug":"report-shows-mobile-incinerator-is-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/report-shows-mobile-incinerator-is-a-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Report shows Mobile Incinerator is a failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mobile incinerator<\/a> worth Rs 2.19 crore purchased from a Gujarat-based company to solve the garbage crisis in the city is costing the government a fortune. According to the documents submitted by Suchitwa Mission, 24 tonne waste should be supplied to the machine every day and the mobile incinerator needs 130-135 litres per hour. The capacity of the incinerator was 0.5- 1 tonne per hour.<\/p>\n

However, in an assessment conducted in January 2013, the incinerator consumed 522.5 litres of diesel to process 1.890 tonnes of waste and the incinerator worked only for six hours.<\/p>\n

This clearly means that the machine is a failure and the assessment report is against the claims put forth by the Urban Affairs Minister Manjalamkuzhy Ali<\/strong> who highlighted the positives of the incinerator in January.<\/p>\n

Suchitwa Mission Executive director George Chackacherry said that the government was fully aware of the running cost involved. \u00a0“However, we were asked to go ahead with the decision since the cabinet had defined it as an emergency requirement to solve the garbage crisis,” said George Chackacherry.<\/p>\n

Moreover, an RTI query reveals that the mobile incinerator does not have secured the most important and basic requirement; the consent of operation from Pollution Control Board (PCB). It is mandatory to obtain the consent from the PCB to operate the incinerator. In the assessment it is also reported that the machine has been emitting toxic materials such as furans, dioxins and organic mercury which emits from the burning of bio-degradable waste. \u00a0In the application filed by the Suchitwa Mission to obtain consent, the columns for emissions and waste rules are left blank or filled as ‘Not Applicable’. What’s shocking is that the mobile incinerator is listed under \u2018Red Category\u2019, which calls for strict monitoring the ‘ambient air quality’ monitoring is also filled as ‘Not Applicable’.<\/p>\n

Now, it is reported that Chinthan Sales, the company that operates the mobile incinerator has shut down the incinerator alleging that the government owed the company more than Rs. 30 lakh. While Rs. 22 lakh is reportedly the balance for the purchase of the mobile incinerator, the rest is the \u2018operations and maintenance’ cost from November to January 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mobile incinerator worth Rs 2.19 crore purchased from a Gujarat-based company to solve the garbage crisis in the city is costing the government a fortune. According to the documents submitted by Suchitwa Mission, 24 tonne waste should be supplied to the machine every day and the mobile incinerator needs 130-135 litres per hour. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}