The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Oil Corporation Limited for setting up a Segregated Organic Municipal Solid Waste (SOMSW) based compressed biogas (CBG) plant at Daddumajra.
As per the agreement, MMC would supply 200 tonner per day (tpd) segregated organic waste along with 30 tpd cow dung and IOCL would build the plant on a design, build, finance and operate (DBFO) model. Additionally, the MCC would also provide 10 acres of land at the Dadumajra dumping ground on a nominal lease.