NGT directs Jalandhar MC to submit action plan to treat waste

Jalandhar, August 27

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today directed the Municipal Corporation, Jalandhar, to give a time-bound action plan for achieving the target of zero gap in treating the daily generated waste and bio-remediation of the legacy waste.

There was a hearing in the NGT on the plea filed by the Joint Action Committee of Model Town. The MC Commissioner has also been asked by the NGT to disclose the steps that have been taken until now and source of funds to achieve the target.

Joint Action Committee members have been raising grievance against the illegal garbage dump at the backside of Kewal Vihar opposite the cremation ground, Model Town, Jalandhar. They have been alleging that unsegregated mixed solid waste is dumped at the site which is creating health hazard.

Fed up with the MC for not acting to shift the garbage dump near the cremation ground, residents under the banner of the Joint Action Committee had filed a case in the NGT. He said the next hearing would be held on December 6.

Jaswinder Singh, president of the committee, said, “Since long, we have been raising this issue with everyone, but, strangely, nobody has ever listened to us.” Residents of several colonies adjoining Model Town, under the banner the Joint Action Committee, have raised the issue of shifting of the garbage dump from their locality.