Bhubaneswar, The newly elected corporators of Bhubaneswar are having their maiden meeting on Friday. But the problem of waste disposal in the city is what they perhaps might not have imagined to see on this agenda. There is however no way out. Hanging on the BMC is Orissa High Court’s recent order of contempt proceeding threat on the matter. And the corporation does not know where to dispose of the heaps of wastes, accumulating stinking and polluting.
”We will place the entire issue before the corporters. Let them take a decision. Why Officials should be held responsible and hauled up for the lapse, if any?” asked a senior BMC Official.
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The corporation virtually landed in trouble when Orissa High Court on Wednesday took exception to the BMC not paying heed to its earlier order and hinted at initiating contempt proceedings. The issue of waste disposal in Bhubaneswar was taken to the HC sometime back through a PIL.
Bhuabaneswar generates about 450 MT of waste every day. Earlier, the BMC had identified Bhuasuni as the dumping yard. But it did not know that the move would be registed by the people taking the matter to the court. Local People contend that waste dumping would pollute the area. The BMC contends that it is not yet fully ready to take the city’s entire waste to Bhuasuni as there is no proper road to the place and it would require big fleet of tractors for the purpose.
” We had moved the court to allow five transfer transit points in the city where the wastes would be deposited before being carried to Bhuasuni area within 48 hours,” counselor for BMC Pitambara Acharya said. He said the HC had sometimes ago sent the register general for a spot verification of the proposed transit places and Bhuasuni.”I would not know the content of his report submitted to the court. But we have appraised every thing to the court.” Acharya said.
“BMC does not have sufficient resources at the moment to develop the entire infrastructure required for transportation of wastes and their disposal,” he added. BMC sources maintained it could not spend money on road building and other necessities for waste disposal without budgetary support.
” Presently 50 tippers are engaged in carrying wastes to Bhuasuni. But locals are strongly opposing citing pollution problem. The issue has slowly snow balled into a law and order problem,” a BMC official. |
