The Nashik Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) bid to appoint a private agency for collection and transportation of construction and demolition waste in the city has received poor response.
Not a single agency has come forward for the bidding, forcing the municipal corporation to extend the date of submission by a period of 15 days. The date has now been revised from December 20 to January 5.
The NMC had recently floated a bid for collection, transportation, procession and management of construction and demolition waste in the city on design, build, operate, transfer (DBOR) basis along with the on-site recycling facility. The NMC will provide land for recycling the waste.
“The last date for submission of the bid was set at December 20; however, the NMC did not receive a positive response. Hence, the date for submission of bids has now been extended by another 15 days,” an NMC official said.
Disposing the debris from demolition and construction has become a major issue in the city. The civic body has received a number of complaints against debris being disposed on roads.
Taking serious cognizance of the situation, the municipal corporation has come up with a solution of appointing a private agency for collection and transportation of the construction and demolition waste on the on-site recycling facility.
“The civic administration has no proper management or disposal system for construction and demolition waste. There have been regulations of the central ministry in this regard. As per the government guidelines, we are planning to manage and recycle construction and demolition waste through private agency,” the official added.
The construction waste — which is not usable or cannot be recycled — is to be placed at the dumping ground as identified by the municipal corporation. The list of dumping grounds in all six divisions will be given to the contractor beforehand.
There are six divisions of the municipal corporation — Nashik East, Nashik West, Nashik Road, Satpur, Cidco and Panchavati.
The Public Works Department (PWD) of the NMC has selected a few locations across all six divisions for dumping the debris.