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New Delhi Feb 20 To make solid waste management and sewerage treatment plants economically viable, the Government on Tuesday offered to provide funding to public private partnership (PPP) projects in the area.

Inaugurating the `FICCI Environment Conclave 2007', the Union Minister for Urban Development, Mr Jaipal Reddy, urged participants to suggest practicable models for getting PPP projects off the ground for which "the Government will use the viability gap funding mechanism''.

Admitting that waste management in India had received inadequate attention by city managers and Governments, he said: "The current practices in our cities require huge improvement in making out cities, water bodies and the aquifers sustainable."

Ms Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi, said that 7-8 plants would be set up in the Capital for generating power from waste. "We already have two plants and the rest would be set up within a year."

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