According to a Corporation official, it has been planned to upgrade the Kodungaiyur landfill, which receives a major chunk of city’s total 5,500 tonnes of garbage generated per day, at a total cost of Rs 2.76 crore. “One of the major works will be the construction of new compound on northern and eastern sides of the dumping yard at an estimated cost of Rs 75.35 lakh each,” the official said. 

It is also learnt that the civic body floated a separate tender to construct parapet for the bridge across a canal inside Kodungaiyur dumping yard at a cost of Rs 37.84 lakh.

Meanwhile, the Corporation has also invited contractors to build additional weighbridges and monitoring centres at the main entrance of the yard at nearly Rs 40 lakh. “One of the weighbridges and monitoring rooms will come up near the entrance and another set outside the entrance. We already have weighbridges at the entrance, but those are not enough to handle the present volume of garbage lorries,” the official added.

Kodungaiyur dump yard would also house stainless steel and retroreflective boards on passageways inside the yard to guide drivers. “The boards will be erected at Rs 9 lakh,” the official said.

In another development, the urban body’ solid waste management department has floated tenders inviting bidders to build Resource Recovery Centres (RRC). It has been decided to three such RRCs near compost yards on GNT Service Road, Lakshmi Amman Koil Street and close to the Amma canteen on Kadappa Road in Manali. 

“The three RRCs will be built at a cost of Rs 14 lakh each. Resource Recovery Centres are proposed to enable secondary segregation of plastic and other recyclable waste from the garbage that has already undergone source segregation,” an official said. Apart from this, the civic body has initiated steps to set up a compost yard on Padmavathy Nagar burial ground in Manali.