RMC to install electric compost machines in Ranchi

RANCHI: Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has decided to install three electric compost machines at various places in Ranchi by the end of February 2019.

The machines will be installed in Madhukam vegetable market, Daily Market and Birsa Munda bus stand at a cost of Rs 14 lakh. Also, the RMC is planning to install these machines at Pahari Mandir to transform temple wastes into manure.

Kiran Kumari, health officer of RMC said, “Earlier, we had placed iron containers at these places to convert organic waste into organic manure. But now, we have decided to set up electric compost machines which segregate organic waste in three steps and automatically convert trash into manure, which will then be used to fertilise parks or will be given to RMC self-help groups to sell them and generate revenue.”

Currently, the RMC is conducting a survey on the total bio waste produced from temples and in principle had decided to install this machine at Pahari Mandir.

Segregating wet and dry waste during the door-to-door collection drive is emerging as an issue for the RMC because hardly any citizen bothers to keep both separate. Out of the 53 wards, RMC manages cleanliness and doorstep garbage collection drives at 20 wards, involving around 400 safai karmacharis in the operation.

Now, RMC has also decided to provide 15-day training to its safai workers about how to segregate wet and dry waste at source. Safai workers will also ask people to keep dry and wet wastes separately.