BMC floats EoI to revive Bandra community biogas project

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has taken steps to revive the pioneering waste-to-energy project at Pali Hill in Bandra. BMC has floated an EoI, inviting companies, institutions, trusts and enterprises to modernise and sustainably operate the decentralised facility through a special purpose vehicle.

It has been almost a year that Mumbai’s first community-level biogas plant ceased operations. As per reports, a team of civic officials, along with local corporator Swapna Mhatre and Pali Hill Residents Association (PHRA) representative Madhu Poplai, inspected the site in May to assess its current condition.

According to the EoI, applications for the project will be accepted between July 14 and July 27. The plant, which stopped functioning in August 2025, had been operational for eight years. Established by the PHRA using Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funding, it was widely recognised as a model for decentralised waste management in the city.

Commissioned in May 2018, the 1-TPD biogas project for community processed wet waste from nearly 70 residential buildings and 23 bungalows in the neighbourhood. The energy generated powered 69 streetlights across Pali Hill and nine at the local water reservoir, demonstrating an early example of converting community waste into clean energy.

Multiple biogas or CBG projects are coming up in India’s economic capital city. The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) is building a 1.5 TPD biogas plant to power the LT Market as part of its Corporate Environment Responsibility program.

The Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) had signed agreement with BMC to develop a biogas plant at Deonar dumping site. MGL thereafter, signed a Concession Agreement with BMC for Phase I of a Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant of of 350-TPD at Mankhurd.