Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today assured the resident welfare associations of Okhla that there would be no health hazard due to the waste-to-energy plant being built in the area because only domestic waste would be used to generate power.

Though residents of Okhla have been protesting the construction of a waste-to-energy plant in their locality for months, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit confirmed on Wednesday that the project will be completed soon.

Dikshit gave her assurance that the plant was being built after procuring all the required environmental clearances, and no health hazards would be caused due to it.

Ever heard of bottled cooking gas, green diesel or bio-CNG? And that too produced from waste generated in the city?

New Delhi:A day after he inspected the Okhla-Timarpur waste-to-energy plant, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has written to Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit alleging he had found serious anomalies in the project.

Referring to the anomalies, Ramesh has said,

Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has instructed senior environment officials to meet the residents protesting against the upcoming Okhla-Timarpur waste-to-energy plant and look into their reservations about the plant.

Minister of environment Jairam Ramesh met a group of protesters living in colonies located around the controversial Timarpur-Okhla waste to energy project, owned by Jindal Ecopolis, at Paryavaran Bhawan on Friday.

They demanded that the minister take immediate steps to stop these waste to energy projects coming up in Okhla, Timarpur, Ghazipur and Narela-Bawana.

Waste pickers along with environmentalists and civil society groups staged a march from Kudeshiya Park to the Lieutenant-Governor's office here protesting against the setting up of three waste-to-energy plants in the city.

The protesters said the three incinerator plants at Okhla, Timarpur and Gazipur were being built with complete disregard to the public health concerns of the area residents.

Five-feet long, two-feet wide and about three feet in height, the biogas machine designed and developed by the Bangalore-based Scalene Cybernetics Limited looks a trifle unwieldy for the kitchen in an average flat.

The machine, though, has the potential of revolutionising the fuel use in urban households by ridding them of the ubiquitous LPG cylinders.

Sri Lanka Minister of Power and Energy Champika Ranawaka says that the rates the Sri Lanka Electricity Board purchases electricity generated from solid waste has been increased.

The Minister said the measure was taken to encourage investors in generating electricity through solid waste.

Accordingly, the purchasing price for a unit of electricity generated from solid waste has been increased