PANJIM: Even as the Goa Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is yet to identify 10,000 sq mtrs of land in the industrial estates for setting up of Common Biomedical Waste Treatment Facility (CBMWTF) to treat the medical waste in Goa, the State government has constituted ten member Expert Committee to expedite the entire process and supervision. The Expert Committee headed by Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) chairman Jose Manual Noronha, is entrusted with the tasks to oversee and monitor setting up of the facility in terms of Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 1998 and as per various guidelines issued by the Union Ministry for Environment and Forest (MoEF). The Committee has to also undertake the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) study of the facility. “IDC is directed to identify the required land in any of the industrial estate. They are still in process,” Noronha said. The Expert committee has to also select and finalize the technology, capacity of the facility. On an average 180 tons of biomedical waste is generated every month by over 30 private and government hospitals in the State As per the Bio-medical Waste Rule, one CBMWTF has to be installed where the hospital bed capacity is upto 10,000. However, in Goa the bed capacity of hospital is nearly 5,000. The facility will have treatment facilities like incineration, autoclaving or microwaving, chemical disinfection, shredder, effluent treatment plant, washing and others. Hospitals generate different kinds of waste from their operation theatres, casualties and general and specialised wards, which needs to be generated and scientifically treated and disposed off on a daily basis.