Waste pile-up: Hry watchdog issues notice to company

Manvir Singh Saini / Nov 23, 2024, 04:19 IST

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Waste pile-up: Hry watchdog issues notice to company

Chandigarh: The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has served a notice to Delhi-based company JBN Enviro group hired by the Panipat municipal corporation (MC) for failing to dispose of legacy waste piling up in Mehrana village, asking why it should not pay environment compensation.
The details came to light on Thursday when the board formally submitted its action take report before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in a case filed by local resident Ashish against the MC as well as the agency and Haryana.
According to information accessed by TOI, the move is consequent to the report of a joint committee constituted by NGT to examine the garbage disposal site. Legacy waste of over 360 MT was found to have been piled up at the disposal site in Mehrana, according to reports
As mentioned in the contract signed by the MC, the company did not cover the solid waste or raise boundary walls around the site to restrict the moment or spills of garbage. The waste was dumped at an open ground that had been seeping into the soil leading to contamination of underground water too.

The HSPCB as well civic bodies of Gurugram, Faridabad and Panchkula are already facing litigation on account of poor disposal of garbage resulting in heaps and mounds of garbage piling up on the sites. There had been incidents when NGT and HSPCB had taken penal action against civic bodies.

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