Hockey World Cup venue has an excessive amount of filth to clear

By Express News Service

ROURKELA:  A stench lingers across the under-construction hockey stadium, billed as India’s largest with world-class amenities, on the BPUT campus at Chhend Colony right here. The proposed stadium will co-host the Men’s Hockey World Cup in January subsequent yr however lower than 100 metre away, piles of rubbish sit within the landfill web site of BPUT.

With hardly 11 months left for the showpiece occasion, apprehensions are being raised over the well timed completion of the bio-mining challenge to reclaim the rubbish dumping web site and provides it a makeover. 

Those acquainted with the challenge stated on January 5, the Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) invited a request for proposal (RPF) for bio-mining of legacy waste from the BPUT rubbish dumping web site by way of a administration contract. On request of some potential bidders, the RFP submission date has been prolonged until February 11 and on the identical day, technical bids could be opened for analysis. 

If issues go on anticipated traces, work orders might be issued in three-four weeks and profitable bidders would take 30-40 days to mobilise tools, equipment, and logistics to begin work by early or mid-April. If work is carried out in two shifts day by day, the dumping web site shall be cleaned up in 5 months. However, work wouldn’t progress for no less than three months throughout the monsoon. 

The RMC estimates the landfill web site to have round 68,000 to 1 lakh tonne of blended waste. Spread over round 10 acre, the location is in use for over a decade for dumping of non-segregated municipal waste in absence of scientific disposal mechanism until lately. 

Reliable sources stated with eight micro composting centres (MCCs) changing into purposeful, the quantity of dumping of non-segregated waste has been lowered to 10-20 tonnes day by day regardless of objection of the Odisha State Pollution Control Board.  

The bio-mining challenge envisages excavation of legacy waste in step one adopted by stabilising the rubbish by way of bioremediation. Next comes segregation of excavated waste adopted by sustainable administration of the identical by way of recycling, co-processing, and secure disposal.

RMC Commissioner Subhankar Mohapatra stated the bio-mining challenge goals to reclaim the landfill web site for the event of a park. Work on it might begin quickly and RMC is hopeful of finishing the challenge earlier than the mega hockey occasion.