Biogas plant supply from April

LAHORE
A FIRST of its kind and a role model biogas plant constructed at Ichu Gill, a locality situated in the outskirt of provincial metropolis by the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC), will start supplying biogas to the local community next month enabling the residents to get benefit from the green waste and animal rubbish, said Managing Director LWMC Khalid Majeed during a visit to the site area. Head of Waste to Energy and Biogas Project Wasif Azhar, Senior Manager Operations Suhail Anwar Malik, Head of Communication Department Jamil Khawar, Manager Operations Ali Bajwa and Assistant Manager Muhammad Umair Khan were also accompanying him during the detailed visit to the plant. The plant has the capacity to produce biogas from green waste and animal refuse being abundantly produced in the Ichu Gill and will help fulfil the need of almost 200 households at a marginal cost. The LWMC will operate the plant initially for the first year during which selected community members will be trained and plant will be handed over to the local community along with the operational responsibility. This biogas plant is considered to be a model as its construction has led to replicate the plan in other rural areas of the Punjab as well. The biogas plants in Dunya Pur, a distant city of southern Punjab, are also about to inaugurate soon whereas process of installation of biogas plants in Chiniot city is underway.
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