Protest starts at Dumping ground site
Kalimpong
January 1, 2017 :
The
Kalimpong town may face the old garbage problem again. The resident of Lower
Newar gaun along with Bhalukhop gram sudhar samiti have from today not to let
any vehicle and throw garbage at the dumping site about 6 kms away from Kalimpong.
The
decision has come after an agreement of Kalimpong Municipality expired on 31st
December done on May 2016 where municipality has promised to manage the waste
thrown here and there in the 6 acre of land of Municipality.
After
breathing hazardous air and imprinting a bad image of the town Kalimpong Municipality
succeeded to thaw the long frozen difficulty of wastes by implanting the solid
waste management plant in 2015, the first of its kind in whole north-east
region.
Pradeep
Rai , president of Samiti along with its member put a bamboo bar and pasted
poster in the ropes appealing the municipality not to bring and dump waste from
tomorrow as today Sunday was a holiday.
Rai
said it’s their land but when last year a fire engulf the garbage the whole
village above was polluted after which we demanded the municipality to organized
the waste as promised asked for 31st December time and after that
they started to dump.
We
have informed the Municipality , Kalimpong SDO office , police about our move.
Sachin
Rai said the Bio gas plant in a year time has been somewhat useless , at it
opening it was said it can crush and turn degradable waste into gas but now its
capacity to crush have remained almost two bucket of degradable waste. He
informed the ballon where gas gets collected have been leaking leaving
hazardous gas.
He
added Kalimpong town produces 30 metric tons of wastes in a day , which is
bought here by 15 vehicles of Municipality. He added we nearby living , along
with our domestic pets have been affecting by the waste now.
Meanwhile
when asked to Kalimpong SDO Nirmlaya Gharami who is now administrator of
Kalimpong Municipality said we cant let Kalimpong town full of garbage , we
will throw waste in the land purchased by Municipality , if they don’t allow we
have to take some measures he added.
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