Mohali, Oct. 26 -- Eco-friendly waste-to-energy plant to come up; road work to take three months

After years of bureaucratic delays, the Mohali municipal corporation (MC) has finally decided to send the city's garbage to Samgoli in Dera Bassi, paving the way for the construction of a long-awaited eco-friendly waste-to-energy plant.

At present, Mohali is grappling with a mounting solid waste management crisis, as the project - first proposed in 2012 - has remained stuck in administrative red tape. The plant, designed to process around 150 tonnes of waste generated daily, has seen little progress for over a decade.

On Thursday, deputy commissioner Komal Mittal and MC commissioner Parminder Pal Singh Sandhu visited the Samgoli site to rev...