UN to pay experts for garbage management

Bishnu Prasad Aryal
Lalitpur, September 15

The Public-Private Partnership Urban Environment, an INGO under United Nations is committed to pay the three experts of the government committee to deal with the private sectors for the garbage management.

“The PPPUE has assured us to pay the three experts to be hired for dealing with the private sector to set up garbage-fuelled energy plant,” said Dr Sumitra Amatya, General Manager at the Solid Waste Management and Resource Mobilisation Centre under the Ministry of Local Development. “Each of them will be paid Rs 200,000 for the tenure of three months,” Amatya, who is member-secretary of the committee, said.

The government has already formed a five-member high level special empowered garbage management committee, headed by Dr Dinesh Chandra Devkota, member of the National Planning Commission. Other members include MoLD secretary Krishna Gyawali; Niranjan Baral, executive chief of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City; secretaries of the Ministries of Land Reforms, Physical Planning and Environment.

Dr Amatya said that they would include three experts in the committee to prepare the Terms of Reference (ToR) for dealing with the private sector. “We have recommended the names of nine experts to the PPPUE for their payment as per the PPPUE rules. Among them, we will finalise the names of three experts tomorrow, who will be hired as the committee members,” she said.

The government has been working to involve the private sector in managing the valley garbage by setting up energy plant. According to the MoLD, the agreement between the government and the private sector will be signed by mid-December. Then the energy plant will be set up within two years.

Amatya said that they were discussing on the publication of call for expression of interest (EoI) from the interested firms to establish garbage-fuelled plant. “Then we will shortlist the interested companies for the final competition,” she added.

More than a dozen of private companies have already shown interests to set up garbage-fuelled plant.