Mayor visits waste compactor site

Ludhiana, June 12

After residents protested against the Municipal Corporation (MC) and the Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) for starting the construction work to set up a waste compactor on the land of cremation ground of Barewal, the LIT has given a complaint to the police after residents opposed the work on Friday.

On Saturday, Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu visited the site. The Mayor said the work was on at the site.

He said for better and effective management of solid waste, 40 static compactors were being constructed in various parts of the city. He assured residents that soon, Ludhiana would become a garbage-free city.

While accusing the corporation and the LIT of ignoring the dignity of the dead, a large number of residents had staged a protest against the authorities of these departments on Friday. They had demanded that no static compactor or garbage dump should be set up on the cremation ground land. — TNS