More power from waste

Isher Judge Ahluwalia : Wed Mar 06 2013, 02:31 hrs

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By encouraging municipal waste-to-energy projects, the government can kill two birds with one stone. We can clean our cities by scientifically disposing of solid waste and generating electricity and at the same time, help reduce the large electricity deficit in the country. It has the added advantage of saving land. P. Chidambaram has provided an opening, but a lot more has to happen before we can convert the FM's support into outcomes on the ground. At the same time, a lot more is expected from the FM to extend his support and encouragement to other ways of scientific disposal of municipal waste.

The writer is chairperson of ICRIER and former chairperson of the high-powered expert committee on urban infrastructure services

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