New Delhi: GAIL (India) Limited will invest Rs 123.42 crore to establish a 300-tonnes-per-day (TPD) Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)-based Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
The proposed facility will come up on the premises of Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) and will process around 300 tonnes of segregated organic municipal waste daily.
GAIL organised an awareness session for stakeholders on November 11 to discuss the proposed project. The event was attended by Member of Parliament Tejaswi Surya, Karnataka MLA Satish Reddy and GAIL Executive Director (Southern Region) S. Mowar, along with representatives of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and resident welfare associations.
Spread across approximately 18 acres, the plant is expected to produce around 12.6 tonnes of compressed biogas and 21.6 tonnes of Fermented Organic Manure (FOM) every day.
The CBG produced at the facility will be supplied to GAIL Gas, a wholly owned subsidiary of GAIL, strengthening the availability of indigenous clean fuel in Karnataka.
The proposed plant will be equipped with modern odour-control and effluent-treatment systems to ensure environmentally responsible waste processing and address concerns of nearby residents.
The project is aimed at reducing the volume of organic municipal waste sent to landfills while generating clean fuel and organic manure from waste.
The initiative is aligned with the government's clean energy transition and Swachh Bharat Mission. GAIL envisages the Bengaluru facility as a potential model for developing similar municipal solid waste-based CBG projects in other urban centres across the country.
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