Aravallis won’t have new waste site: Centre to MC

Bijendra Ahlawat

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, September 22

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has turned down a proposal of the municipal corporation (MC) of Faridabad for a new landfill and waste management site in the Aravallis.

Jitender Kumar Bhadana of the Save Aravalli, a local NGO, says the decision was revealed in response to an RTI application submitted by a member of the NGO.

The proposal to use 92 acres of the MC land near Pali and Mohbattabad villages was taken up in 2013. The MC had announced that it would use its land adjacent to the villages to create a new landfill site.

Residents of several villages had opposed the move and held a mahapanchayat in 2015. Bhadana said a resolution for a stir had been adopted and the NGO had filed objection application.

He said the new dumping site would not only have adversely affected the ecology of nearby villages, but would have become a source of deadly diseases like cancer as well by damaging groundwater.

He said they had approached the Union ministry and the NGT. He said Pali, Mohbattabad, Pawta, Nayagaon, Baas and Pakhal would have been affected.

He added that such a site was liable to damage flora and fauna on more than 100 acres. He said groundwater near the Bandhwari waste plant on the Faridabad-Gurugram highway had turned poisonous.