The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to lease operation and maintenance of the newly built rendering plant at the Ghazipur abattoir to private players for a period of five years.

The civic body has invited bids for an open auction that will be held later this month.

Senior MCD officials after the bidding process the appointed contractor would pay a monthly lease rent to the MCD.

The state-of-the-art slaughterhouse at Ghazipur has a modern rendering plant — a processing unit to convert waste animal tissue into value-added materials like poultry meal.

“The move will help MCD earn revenue and do away with the problem of animal carcasses thrown in open, which can cause health hazards. This will help prevent spread of diseases,” MCD Director (Veterinary Services) R B S Tyagi said.

“The waste animal tissue will be processed at the plant in a scientific way to generate by-products, from which the private firm will make its profits,” he said.

Tyagi said the meat traders, who were earlier opposed to shifting to the new abattoir at Ghazipur, are now cooperating with the civic agency and normal slaughtering activities have started at the abattoir.