In order to carry out solid waste disposal in Patna, Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation (BUDCO) plans to set up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) with Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC).

   BUDCO MD Anupam Kumar Suman expressed the plan to set up the SPV during the second board meeting of the PMC. Once the PMC issues no-objection certificate (NOC), the new company will start functioning.

   The move to form an SPV follows the withdrawal of three companies - Jindal ITF Urban Infrastructure, MBM Dallah and Urshasar - from the civic body's cleanliness project.

   The SPV would come up with a new regulation of service tax for door-to-door garbage collection. As of now, garbage was not collected door-to-door. But SPV will take the responsibility of collecting it from doorsteps for a nominal amount, reports indicate. The company will collect garbage from all buildings and roadside dumping bins of the city, reports suggest.

   The SPV will install its own processing plant at Bairiya where all solid waste will be properly disposed of. The company, once functional, will collect Rs 1.5 crore per month through garbage collection. The collected money will be used in installing GPRS in garbage collection vans to monitor their activities.

   The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNURM) has already issued Rs 36.95 crore to PMC and BUDCO for the installation of the plant. Meanwhile, the proposal for fee for garbage collection has raised many an eyebrow in the state capital.