Chattogram Bureau :
Chattogram City Corporation has received proposals from several foreign companies to implement a project that was halted two years ago to generate electricity from waste due to land crisis. One of the companies has asked for the entire management responsibility from the city’s waste collection to the center to power generation.
Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) has sought feasibility report and project proposal from two foreign companies.
The company is hopeful that significant progress will be made in this regard within the current year. Representatives of the Chinese Investors Association met Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury at the temporary Nagar Bhaban near Tiger Pass in the city on Monday and expressed interest in implementing a project to generate electricity from waste. In this regard, Mayor Rezaul said, “If the project of converting daily use goods including electricity by treating the waste piled up at the dumping station is implemented, our own capacity will be increased and the city will be environmentally friendly.”
Addressing the delegation, the mayor said, “We will give the land. You have to approve the proposed project from the government and meet all the expenses. In response, the delegation informed that they are implementing such projects in 34 more countries including Dhaka, Bangladesh.
They are interested in implementing power generation projects from waste if given land. The delegation was led by Liu Zhang, president of the Chinese Investors Association. “We have already received several verbal proposals,” said Muhammad Abul Hashem, the mayor’s private secretary.
Meanwhile, a foreign company called Saudi-German Technology Limited has made an offer. They want to manage the whole process of waste collection, all the vehicles and manpower for collection, transportation to the treatment plant and the whole process of power generation.
That is why they want 40 acres of land. The feasibility study of the organization is nearing completion. Hopefully I will get the project proposal soon.Earlier, on October 21, 2016, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) for the construction of a power plant from the waste collected by the CCC. According to the terms of the agreement, the PDB will select a third party to implement the project. Then the construction work of the project will start through a tripartite agreement with them. The center will be constructed in BOO (Build, Own and Operate) method.
