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Bahour Commune Panchayat: One biogas Kottucherry Commune Panchayat:
unit, which is currently operational, has Another 25 cum biogas plant to convert
been set up in Bahour Commune Panchayat organic food waste into biogas has been set
at a cost of Rs. 23 lakhs, behind the Rajiv up at Thiru S Singaravellu Pillai Community
Gandhi Government Community Marriage Hall in Kottucherry of Karaikal District,
which utilizes organic food waste from
Hall in Kuruvinatham village. Food waste
the Singaravelar Government Community
from the community hall, hotels and
Marriage Hall and hotel to produce biogas.
markets is fed into the plant to produce
The panchayat is entrusted with O&M of
clean cooking fuel.
this plant.

utcome

In each plant, about 125 kgs of food waste
is collected daily from the community

hall, hotels and markets and fed into
the biogas plant along with cow dung

and agricultural waste amounting to a
total of about 250 kgs. This generates

around 14 kgs of biogas (equivalent to
one LPG cylinder), which can be used

to sufficiently cook food for 200–300
people for a function at the community

hall, thus saving about Rs. 1,000 per day.

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