PCMC to decide about accepting Alandi's garbage

PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation will take a call on allowing the Alandi Municipal Council to dump its garbage at the Moshi garbage depot in a general body meeting on Monday.
Speaking to TOI, Pimpri Chinchwad mayor Shakuntala Dharade said, "Alandi municipal council leaders came to meet me two days ago with a request to dump garbage at the Moshi garbage depot."
Dharade said she had brought the matter to the attention of municipal commissioner Rajeev Jadhav and Nationalist Congress Party leader Mangala Kadam.
The National Green Tribunal had directed the Alandi civic body not to dump garbage into the riverbed and instead seek permission from the nearby gram panchayat or municipal corporation to dump the garbage in their processing plants.
The directive was issued in response connection to a petition filed by Sandip B Kayastha who had claimed that all the garbage was being dumped in the river bed and the land reserved for a crematorium along the river bed and is being managed illegally and unscientifically. This has resulted in the pollution of the Indrayani river which eventually merges with Bhima river.
Rohidas Tapkir, president of the Alandi civic body, said, "I met the Pimpri Chinchwad mayor and municipal commissioner and requested them to allow us to dump garbage at Moshi garbage depot till alternative arrangements are made. Around 10 tonne garbage is generated in Alandi civic body limits per day."
Tapkir refuted the allegation that the civic body was dumping the garbage in the river bed claiming that the waste was being dumped along the river.
PCMC dumps 700 tonne garbage per day at the garbage depot in Moshi along Pune-Nashik highway. This is spread over 80 acre and the civic body has done scientific capping to free up more space for garbage dumping.