Gas production from garbage started in Dharan, Mega Bank’s financial partnership

KATHMANDU: JAN. 10 – Under the financial partnership of Mega Bank, the production of gas and organic manure has begun for the first time in Nepal from a waste disposal center in Dharan. In collaboration with Dharan Sub-Metropolitan and the government’s Alternative Energy Promotion Center, Venture Waste to Energy Pvt. Ltd. has begun producing gas and manure from the waste treatment plant in Dharan-6 Panbari.

Mega Bank is the financial partner of the project formed by the private sector in accordance with the idea of Private-Public-Partnership (PPP) inaugurated under Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s chief hospitality.

Mega Bank’s Chairperson Bhoj Bahadur Shah and CEO Anupama Khunjeli attended the inaugural ceremony as guests. Shah, Mega Bank’s chairperson, expressed his pride at being able to contribute financially to this important national project to transform waste into energy.

Similarly, CEO Khunjeli said that the production of gas and manure from garbage would not only help in waste management but also help the country to replace energy imports even in small quantities and reduce the trade deficit. She said that Mega Bank is always ready to partner in such projects of long-term importance. This waste treatment plant with a capacity of 30 tons per day will produce about one thousand kilograms of organic manure gas, about five hundred kilograms of organic manure and about ten thousand liters of liquid manure daily. In addition, it is said that about 80 people will get employment when the center comes into operation at full capacity.

According to the founders of this waste treatment center, Bipul Raj Pandey and Janesh Shrestha, CNG gas will be produced by purifying the organic gas produced from here. From which it will be used in three-wheeler (auto) in Dharan. About 300 autos in Dharan can be operated by connecting a kit with a cylinder. The use of CNG gas produced from here will replace about 1,500 to 2,000 liters of petrol imported daily. It is believed that this will reduce imports by about Rs 100 million at the current market price. CNG gas, which is widely used in most of the countries of the world, gives more mileage than petrol which is cheaper than petrol and is also environmentally friendly.

Mega Bank is preparing to give away free CNG conversion kits to ten three-wheeled autos as part of its corporate social responsibility.