Cuttack, Apr 5: A new chapter in waste management has begun in Odisha. Now, biogas will be produced from the waste generated in Cuttack City. An agreement between the Cuttack Municipal Corporation and the Oil India Company was signed in the presence of Housing and Urban Development Minister Dr. Krushna Chandra Mahapatra today.

The biogas plant will solve the problem of waste dumping in the city.

According to the agreement, Oil India Limited will set up a biogas plant at Jagatpur at a cost of about Rs 150 crore. The biogas plant is expected to process 200 tonnes of waste per day to produce biogas. The plant will be ready for biogas production in the next one-and-a-half years, an Oil India official said.

"Such a compressed biogas plant scheme will solve the problem of waste in the city. The residents of the city will get rid of the stinking environment due to the setting up of large dumping yards and micro compost plants to dump waste inside the city," the Minister said.

The Minister said similar biogas plants will be set up in other cities of the state. The gas that will come out of this biogas plant will be used as fuel by the common people. It will be supplied through the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) pipeline, the Minister added.