The Millennium city may get its first Construction & Demolition (C&D) waste treatment plant by December.
On Monday, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) Commissioner V Umashankar along with other senior MCG officials conducted a foundation ceremony at a site in Basai where the plant will be set up.
The plant is proposed to treat over 300 tonnes of C&D waste and will be functional under the public private partnership model.
The recycled waste will create raw materials like ceramic, cement bricks stones and sand and will be used by officials in various construction projects of MCG.
The Corporation has identified various construction sites in the city from where it will collect the waste and transporting to the waste treatment plant at Basai.
"Even though we have set a deadline for setting up the plant in one year, I have been told that the first product will start coming out within six months. The recycled waste will be used by the MCG in setting up tiles in the city," Umashankar said.
He also said: "In a city where a lot of pollution is created through construction waste, setting up of the first C&D waste treatment plant will be extremely useful. All the choking of drains due to construction waste will also be reduced to a great deal."
From 2013 onwards, the Corporation had been planning to open the C&D waste treatment plant.
However, various hurdles prevented the officials from going ahead with their plans to set up the plant.
In 2014, the MCG officials planned to open the waste treatment plant at Begum Pur Khatola but had to abandon the plan after the protest from the locals.
It was in the middle of 2016 that an alternative site at Basai was chosen by officials of the Coporation.