BBMP will sign an agreement with France on March 10

The state government will sign a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the government of France on March 10 to set up waste energy plants in the city.

The proposal was presented  by the government of France  to the state government in 2017.  

French President Emmanuel Macron will be signing the MoA with  Karnataka in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, city Mayor R Sampath Raj and BBMP Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad on Saturday in Delhi.

The waste plant will be coming up at a Chikkanagamangala site near Anekal in Bengaluru Urban where the civic body is processing waste as of now.

With the introduction of the technology provided by France -  which is on a public-private partnership model - about 7-8 MW of power can be generated.According to the revenue model, the Chikkanagamangala facility will be taken for a 3-year lease by the company. "There were a lot of procedures which we had to go through and we have completed all formalities for the process," said Prasad.