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No headway in finalising site for dumping yard

BHUBANESWAR: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Khurda district administration could not make any headway in resolving differences in opinion regarding finalising location for waste dump yard for Bhubaneswar and Cuttack at Bhuasuni Mouza, on the outskirts of capital city.

A joint meeting between BMC, Khurda district administration, local legislator and people’s representatives from Bhuasuni Mouza turned out to be an inconclusive one here on Monday.

“We have requested the people’s representatives of the area to elicit consensus among people who are opposing the site of waste dump yard. Representatives, however, could not utter any final word on the contentious issue and sought 15 days time to discuss with people,” BMC Commissioner Aparajita Sarangi said here after the meeting.

A land patch spreading over 62-acre at Bhuasuni Mouza had earlier been identified as the site for waste disposal yard for the twin cities. However, BMC has not been able to unload waste there as people residing in nearby areas have come out strongly against the site selection. They don’t want daily wastes being generated in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack to be dumped near their villages.

Following protests by people, BMC continued to dump wastes in five different sites inside the capital city. However, when a citizen moved Orissa High Court over waste disposal activities inside the city, the latter took a strong view and directed the municipal corporation to stick to Bhuasuni as dumping yard for the twin cities.

There have been several reconciliation meetings over the controversy, however, all attempts have proved to be futile.

Recently a team from Orissa government had visited waste disposal yard of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation. “We found that no smell was originating even at 100 metre distance. The yard of Navi Mumbai was used for dumping of about 800 metric tonnes of waste on daily basis. We offered representatives that 10 persons could be taken in an exposure visit to Navi Mumbai to see the reality,” Ms. Sarangi said.

She said the yard would be maintained on public private partnership mode. The project would take maximum 30 months for completion.

Bhubaneswar generates average 450 metric tonnes of solid waste everyday while another 200 metric tonnes would be coming from Cuttack for the dumping yard. Khurda district Collector Narayan Jena, who was asked to facilitate interface between BMC and local people, said more such meetings would be convened to evolve consensus on site selection.

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