Waste processing facilities will soon become wealth generating units, says MA&UD Minister Narayana

Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister P. Narayana inspects the garbage dump at Donthali near Nellore on Sunday.

Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister P. Narayana said solid waste management in the state will get a boost when Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu gives approval to set up 107 processing units across the state by the end of July, with an outlay of around ₹300 crore.

Speaking to the media after inspecting the Donthali landfill in Nellore Rural where work was underway to install the processing plant, Mr. Narayana said that one million tonnes of old waste would be removed by the end of this month at Donthali, where the Jindal group is coming up with a waste-to-energy plant.

The plant would be commissioned within two years, with the capacity to incinerate the generated solid waste within a radius of 100 km every day.

The previous “visionless” government not only imposed garbage tax on people but also left behind 153 million tonnes of waste, the minister said.

Similarly, the races sanctioned by the TDP government in 2014-19 were ignored by the successor YSRCP regime. If completed, the plants would burn 7,000 tons of solid waste statewide each day, he said.

“The NDA government cleared 130 tonnes of garbage within two years after coming to power and the remaining 23 million tonnes will be cleared and processed by July,” he said. To date, 2,800 tonnes of garbage have been used to generate electricity in Guntur and Visakhapatnam. The government has built six more waste-to-energy facilities to be commissioned across the state.

He noticed that treatment plants would soon become wealth-generating infrastructure. Nellore Municipal Corporation Commissioner Y. Nandan and other officials attended.

Published – 07 Jun 2026 20:24 IST