Garbage processing plant gets another show-cause notice

Ramkrishan Upadhyay

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 18

The Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC) has issued a show-cause notice to the JP garbage processing plant at Dadu Majra after a team of experts found various violations of environmental, air and water Acts during the inspection carried out recently. The plant has been served the notice for the second time by the committee after the first show-cause notice to the plant was issued in July 2017 for violations of rules.

It has given 15 days’ time for the plant management to reply to the notice which asked the management as why the authorities should not act against the plant and legal action may not be initiated against them for the violations. The notice has been served after the committee appointed by the National Green Tribunal of the CPCC found many irregularities and shortcomings related to the functioning of the plant.

Sources said the team found that the effluent treatment plant (ETP) was not working properly.

The notice said air pollution control devices were also not functioning properly and there was a leakage in the plant.

It was also found that solid waste was stored in a huge quantity and an indiscriminate manner.

While the garbage processing plant at Dadu Majra is overflowing with garbage, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has failed to take any action against the plant so far, citing that the issue was in the National Green Tribunal.

Sources said the plant had not been functioning properly and the plant threw 3,188 metric tonn of garbage in the dumping ground out of the 3,880 metric tonn of garbage it received in the past one month.

MC authorities helpless

While the processing plant at Dadu Majra is overflowing with garbage, the Municipal Corporation has failed to take any action against the plant so far, citing that the issue was in the NGT. Sources said the plant had not been functioning properly and the plant threw 3,188 MT of garbage in the dumping ground out of the 3,880 MT of garbage it received in the past one month.