HC permits BBMP to operate wet waste processing unit at Mandur

November 01, 2014 12:11 am | Updated 01:01 am IST - Bangalore

The High Court of Karnataka on Friday permitted the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to operate a wet waste processing unit near Mandur landfill, after dumping of garbage is stopped from December 1.

A Division Bench comprising Justice N. Kumar and Justice B.V. Nagarathna said the unit at Mandur can process waste from Mahadevapura Assembly constituency and if possible waste from the adjoining areas as well.

The Bench, however, made it clear that there shall not be any dumping of waste at Mandur landfill from December 1 as promised by the Chief Minister. The Bench passed the order while hearing PIL petitions about the city’s garbage problem.

Pointing out that if waste cannot be dumped at Mandur then it cannot be dumped in any other part the city, and hence there is an urgent need to set up wet processing units across the city.

At Mavallipura

Meanwhile, the Bench also said that the issue over operating a wet waste processing unit at Mavallipura landfill should be resolved and the unit, with an initial capacity to process 90 tonnes of waste, should commence at the earliest.

Referring to the objection of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on garbage being taken to Mavallipura, the Bench made it clear that it was not permitting a landfill at Mavallipura.

The court also made it clear to Ramky group, which will operate the processing unit, to cover the unit within a week, while observing that it would ask the BBMP to operate the unit if the company, against which certain complaints have been made, failed to discharge its function properly.

Meanwhile, a few easy and odourless methods of in-house composting of wet wastes was demonstrated by a group of persons to the Bench, which asked them to submit details of the methods and their products.

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