{
  "id": 5870391,
  "title": "GCC moves ahead with Keerapakkam WtE, Perungudi projects",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/gcc-moves-ahead-with-keerapakkam-wte-perungudi-projects",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-05T19:30:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/gcc-moves-ahead-with-keerapakkam-wte-perungudi-projects/article71432413.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) is preparing to award bids for two significant waste-management projects - a 2,400-tonne-per-day Waste-to-Energy facility in Keerapakkam and a 1,000-tonne-per-day waste-handling facility in Perungudi - by the end of the month. The tenders were announced on March 6, offering bidders a seven-month window to prepare their proposals. The deadline for submitting bids is September 30 at 3 p.m., with the opening of bids scheduled for October 1 at 4 p.m., leaving a mere 25-hour gap between the two events. Both projects were proposed under the Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) model through a public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement. The Keerapakkam facility, a 2,400 TPD municipal WtE plant including a scientific landfill, aims to cater to the waste-management needs of the Chennai-Tambaram-Avadi cluster. The Perungudi project involves constructing a 1,000 TPD waste-handling facility, incorporating a 700 TPD compost-processing unit, also under the DBFOT model. These projects align with GCC's objectives to enhance scientific processing of municipal solid waste and decrease reliance on dumpsites.",
  "summary": "While the Keerapakkam facility was planned as a large-scale WtE project for the Chennai-Tambaram-Avadi cluster, the Perungudi facility was intended to increase the waste-processing capacity at the existing dumpsite",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}