Ludhiana, April 26 -- Amid the city producing around 1,100 metric tonnes (MT) of municipal solid waste everyday and the solid waste management plant at Jamalpur processing only 300 MT, the civic body has said that the pace of processing will be increased soon to address the 800-MT gap.

Municipal corporation's superintending engineer Sham Lal Gupta said the contractor running the plant recently invested in the latest machinery so the processing work would pick up pace soon. "They have committed to increasing the processing capacity. They have got the latest machinery. We want the contractor to plug the gap," he said.

The legacy waste management plant in Jamalpur began functional last month. The plant is supposed to remediate 19.62 MT leg...