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2020

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Indian Railways commissioned the country’s first governmental waste to energy plant at which city?
A
Kanpur
B
New Delhi
C
Bhubaneswar
D
Dispur
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Bhubaneswar. Indian Railways has commissioned the country’s first governmental Waste to Energy Plant, having a capacity of 500 Kg waste per day, in Mancheswar Carriage Repair Workshop at Bhubaneswar in East Coast Railway.

Detailed explanation-2: -Waste management concessionaire Ecogreen Energy will set up a 25-MW waste-to-energy plant on 10 acres of land at Bandhwadi, located on the Gurugram-Faridabad road.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first waste-to-energy plant was set up in Timarpur in Delhi in 1987. Built by a company from Denmark, the plant was supposed to incinerate 300 tonnes of municipal solid waste per day to generate 3.75 megawatts of electricity.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jamnagar Municipal Corporation First Waste to Energy plant in Gujarat state of capacity 7.5 MW processing 450 MT of municipal waste commissioned by Hon’ble CM, Gujarat on 6/7/2022.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gurugram: Haryana Urban Local Bodies (ULB) Minister Dr Kamal Gupta inaugurated the construction work for the country’s largest waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Gurugram on Friday.

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