The Haryana government is planning to set up 11 garbage transfer stations in Gurugram, which will generate a minimum of 10 MW of energy from the garbage, on a daily basis, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said, on December 13, 2017. These stations are part of the first phase of the Integrated Solid Waste Management Project and such facilities would be made available to other cities as well, he added.
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While flagging off 150 vehicles for garbage collection in Gurugram and Faridabad, Khattar said the areas where the garbage transfer stations would be set up were Atul Kataria Chowk, Udyog Vihar Phase-I, Bajghera Road Choma, Carterpuri, Sheetla Mata Road, Saraswati Kunj, Chakkarpur, Sikanderpur Ghosi, Nathupur, Kadipur and Beri Wala Bagh.
The chief minister laid the foundation stones for 11 solid waste transfer stations in Gurugram, an official release said, adding that the entire state had been divided into 15 clusters for waste management and global tenders invited, for each cluster. He said that the project would be ready by February 2019.
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