Chandigarh: Municipal Commissioner seeks details of money spent on clearing previous trash

Almost Rs 100 crores has been spent connected mining of bequest trash but the concern connected the crushed remains poor.

Residents of Dadumajra proceed to endure arsenic upland aft upland of dump continues to beryllium and taxpayers’ implicit Rs 100 crore has been spent. The mining of bequest discarded has missed respective deadlines arsenic well. And by the clip erstwhile trash is being cleared, a caller upland of dump volition travel up arsenic nary due processing takes place.

In 2019, earlier the Lok Sabha predetermination that year, it was announced that the medication volition get escaped of the dump astatine the Dadumajra dumping crushed arsenic the task of bequest mining volition assistance wide 10 lakh metric tonnes of waste. During inauguration of the project, officials of the civic assemblage had promised to wide the onshore soon and crook it into a recreational spot for residents.

However, aft the fanfare died down and the Lok Sabha polls were over, it was announced that this Rs 34 crore is for clearing lone that trash which is conscionable fractional of the full dump. It was said that the civic assemblage volition lone wide fractional the discarded that was dumped successful Dadumajra anterior to 2008, that is the Rs 34 crore magnitude allotted to the task volition lone instrumentality attraction of fractional the discarded present. Waste amounting to astir 5 lakh metric tonnes dumped aft 2008 was not included successful the ‘mega project’- tender of which was awarded afresh and fixed for Rs 68 crore more.

Again earlier the Lok Sabha polls this year, different cardinal committedness was made which was getting a caller bureau to tally the sole discarded processing plant. And, it was to impact Rs 400 crore funds to get a institution that runs the works — which JP was doing anterior to 2020. It was said that it volition necessitate 2 years of execution and would beryllium fixed for 15 years.

However, successful a nationalist proceeding held a fewer months ago, upset residents of Dadumajra intelligibly specified that “they don’t request the plant” and alternatively these hefty funds beryllium fixed to residents to displacement their homes from there.

The residents had stated that they were surviving successful atrocious conditions, with astir of them suffering from tegument and lung problems due to the fact that of the dump.