UNB: After more than two years of contract signing, Chinese firm China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) has recently started the pilling works at the Aminbazar site in Dhaka to develop the country’s first ever waste-based power plant.
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, which generates over 6,500 tonnes of garbage every day, is expected to see a big change in garbage management once the country’s first proposed waste-energy plant in Aminbazar goes into operation. Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) officials hoped that the CMEC will complete the power plant construction within the stipulated time to start the power generation from July 2026.
“The Chinese sponsor have mobilised huge equipment and manpower to implement the project within the deadline”, Captain Mohammad Fida Hasan, Chief Waste Management Officer of the DNCC, told UNB. They have been doing the pilling work round the clock, he added. He admitted that the project was delayed due to delay in handing over of the site to the CNEC. See more Page 3