The total cost of the proposed collection systems isestimated to be around 80 million rupees for the fixed cost of storage bins,collection vehicles and a sanitary landfill and around 8.4 million rupees for the annual operating cost of crews, vehicles and landfill maintenance.
A substantialamount (25 million rupees/yr) is currently being spent by AMC on waste collectionalone without any proper storage/collection system and sanitary landfill. Over aprojected period of 15 yr, the overall savings is thus very significant