Overview
- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who ordered the action on Tuesday, directed officials to form dedicated task forces to accelerate projects that convert municipal and organic waste into compressed biogas (CBG).
- Officials were told to prioritise sites in Mumbai (BMC), Vasai‑Virar, Mira‑Bhayandar, Kalyan‑Dombivli and Pune’s Hinjawadi and Chakan while assessing four feasibility criteria: waste volumes, land availability, technology suitability and proximity to gas pipelines.
- Executives from Keva Green presented their operational Nagpur waste‑to‑biogas plant as a working model for scaling and for designing cluster and off‑site heavy‑processing options to ease urban land pressure.
- The CM asked for implementation frameworks that link urban local bodies, private developers and oil marketing companies such as BPCL to secure pipeline offtake, reduce transport costs and streamline commercial gas handling.
- Next steps are feasibility studies and framework design by the newly ordered task forces with no new CBG plants commissioned under this directive yet and potential outcomes including lower municipal collection costs and more local renewable gas supply.