UN Habitat, an organisation to implement United Nations Human Settlements Programme, has offered the City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) to install a plant to crush solid waste for converting it into alternate energy for adjacent localities, restaurants, hotels and markets.
It will also help to consume the garbage according to the principles of health care. The offer was made at a meeting with Rawalpindi DCO Saqib Zafar in the chair, which was also attended by EDO (MS) Imtiaz Ahmed Malik, representatives of UN Habitat Ms Sumaira Gull and Akhter Hameed Khan.
The representatives of UN Habitat informed the meeting that this kind of plant would be installed in Pakistan for the first time, adding such plants had already been installed in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh on the partnership basis of UN Habitat and local government institutions.
The plant would generate 20KW energy with three tons of solid waste and 500sqm land would be required fir its installation. They were of the view that the landfill site in Losar (Rawat) was far away and the organisation would face problems in transportation of solid waste from the city area as well as the transferring station of solid waste already existing at Sawan Camp.
The DCO told the representatives that no site was available except this site and the solid waste was already being disposed of at a big piece of land there, so the CDGR would prefer to get the plant installed over there. The proposal and offer given by the UN-Habitat to the CDGR would be considered seriously. If the proposal is accepted, both the sides will enter into an agreement to run this plant in the near future.