DCC to get 100 garbage trucks from Japan soon
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16/08/2008
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New Age (Bangladesh)
The Dhaka City Corporation will receive around 100 CNG-run environmentally-friendly garbage trucks and 25 compactors, used in waste reduction, from the Japan government within a couple of months, corporation officials said.
A Japanese team is now working in Bangladesh for this purpose and a memorandum of understanding, to this effect, is likely to be signed between the External Relations Division and the Japan government on August 22, said a top DCC engineer.
The Japan government will give $10 million (equivalent to about Tk 70 crore) grant to purchase the equipment that includes 20 open trucks, each with 1.5 ton capacity, 30 dump trucks, 20 each with 3 ton capacity and 10 each with 7 ton capacity, 50 containers carriers of 3 ton capacity and 25 compactors- 10 each with 2 ton capacity and 15 each with 5 ton capacity, corporation sources said.
Dr Tariq Bin Yousuf, superintendent engineer-cum-project director of the Sanitary Landfill Project of the DCC waste management department said,