Governor visits Biogas plant at Bowenpally vegetable market praised by PM Modi
February 03, 2021
CSIR-IICT to set up 5 more plants Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan visited the biogas plant installed at Dr BR Ambedkar Vegetable Market Yard in Bowenpally, Secunderabad
The plant visit is significant as Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his
Mann ki Baat Radio aired on January 31 praised the innovative biogas plant set up in the market yard.
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) has developed and patented the “Anaerobic Gas lift Reactor (AGR)” technology for the generation of methane rich biogas and nutrient rich bio manure. The installation of this biogas plant in the market yard is a Swachh Bharath Mission initiative jointly funded by the Department of Biotechnology and Department of Agriculture Marketing, Telangana. Ahuja Engineering Services has executed the project under the technical supervision of CSIR-IICT.
Governor visits Bowenpally green power plant
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Prime Minister had mentioned about the innovative biogas plant in his radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’
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Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and government officials at the biogas plant installed with IICT technology at Bowenpally vegetable market, in Secunderabad on Tuesday.
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Prime Minister had mentioned about the innovative biogas plant in his radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’
Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has congratulated and felicitated the entire scientific team of CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), TS department of marketing and Ahuja Engineering Services for executing the ‘vegetable waste to gas plant’ at the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Agriculture Market in Bowenpally here on Tuesday.
Bowenpally garbage to power plant finds mention in PM’s radio address
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Workers busy at the biogas plant at Bowenpally market in Secunderabad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Sunday radio address - Mann Ki Baat - has mentioned about the garbage to power plant being commissioned inside the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Agriculture Market in Bowenpally where vegetable and fruit waste is being used to generate power to the extent of 500 units a day and 30 kilos of green manure.
This is being done by making use of 10 tonnes of left over market waste. The power generated is being used to light up the market and also to run the canteen in the premises enabling the market committee to make substantial savings in power bills.
Bowenpally vegetable market generates own green power
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Construction of the ten-tonne capacity reactor at ₹3 crore was completed last year.
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CSIR-IICT chief scientist Gangagni Rao inspecting Biogas plant at Bowenpally market in Secunderabad.
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Construction of the ten-tonne capacity reactor at ₹3 crore was completed last year. During the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown and subsequent unlock, the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Vegetable Market Yard in Bowenpally has been a hive of activity. It was not just about arrival of a variety of vegetables from near and far; a new waste-to-power plant was being tried out.
Hyderabad:
Covaxin, a vaccine candidate being developed by Bharat Biotech for COVID-19, can offer protection against mutations of Coronavirus, said Krishna Ella, Chairman and Managing Director of the city-based vaccine maker, on Tuesday.
He also said the company had approached regulatory authorities seeking approval for an emergency license to use the vaccine, developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Institute of Virology and now undergoing phase 3 trials.
“It (Coronavirus) is expected to have a lot of mutation and you can be rest assured this vaccine will also protect against that (mutated) virus because of two hypotheses… So you have these two components in the inactivated vaccine. It will also take care of those mutations,” Ella said during a virtual programme organised by CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology.