Hyderabad, July 21: Top companies such as Maytas Infra, Coromandal Fertilisers, Ramky Enviro Engineers, Delhi-based Jindal Water Infrastructure, and Bengaluru's Terra Fima Biotechnologies are vying to grab a project for segregation of garbage in Hyderabad. Several other firms from Noida, Navi Mumbai, Surat, New Delhi and Chennai are also in the reckoning. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is setting up the project to segregate garbage at source to keep the city environs free of toxic waste. As many as 22 companies from all over India have come forward to take up the project. About 4,000 metric tonnes of garbage is generated every day in Greater Hyderabad and earlier attempts by the GHMC to make citizens segregate garbage failed miserably. The civic body now wants to hand over the task to private agencies. Sources said the GHMC wanted the agency to implement a two-bin system wherein its personnel will collect garbage door to door and dump them in bins after segregating them to degradable and bio-degradable. The project also requires the agency to lift the segregated garbage from bins and shift to it to transfer station to be processed. Finally, it should be transported to the dumping yard where it has to be disposed off scientifically. The GHMC is looking for an agency that has executed a similar project in an area having a minimum population of 10 lakh. It should also have handled at least 3 lakh metric tonnes of garbage in two years. "Companies in the race for the project have tied up with international firms having experience in such projects," said a senior official. "The 22 agencies which have submitted its Expression of Interest have been asked to make a technical presentation by month end." Interestingly, the GHMC will bear the transportation cost incurred on shifting of garbage from lanes and bylanes to the dumping yard. The agencies will also be given a list of VVIP areas which should be free of garbage bins. The agency or the consortium bagging the contract will have the liberty to sell the garbage to power producing plants. "We are not giving the expenditure being incurred by GHMC on garbage disposal in city as we want the agencies to come out with their own rates after calculations," said the GHMC additional commissioner (health and sanitation), Mr R. Rama Mohan Rao.