Coimbatore: Corporation to sign new contract with private firm to manage waste

COIMBATORE: The city corporation is planning to sign a new agreement with the private company that is treating a portion of the solid wastes generated in the city after coming to know that a part of the land at Vellalore it had leased to the company has been taken up for constructing the integrated bus stand.
“We are working to identify the exact portion of the leased area that falls under the area chosen to construct the bus stand. Once the land is identified, we plan to rewrite the agreement signed with the Coimbatore Integrated Waste Management Company Private Limited,” said a corporation official. “The overlapping area would not be more than five cents and has no civil structure, apart from the special school run for the children of those working in the dump yard. It can be shifted as there is sufficient space available adjacent to it.”
The agreement with the company ends in 2026, the official said. “The corporation does not want to make changes in the bus stand design only because of the agreement, which ends in a few years.”
The issue came to light recently after the company was asked to vacate the portion of land to begin construction work. The firm filed a complaint with the corporation office and with the collector’s office. The corporation, in 2008, had leased out 181 acres of land to the company for carrying out the waste management project.