*Administrator Chandigarh takes stock of progress in legacy waste biomining at dumping ground*
Chandigarh, July 24:- Sh. Banwarilal Purohit, Governor, Punjab and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh directed the Chandigarh Smart City Ltd. and Municipal Corporation Chandigarh to speed up the work of clearing the legacy waste from the dumping ground in Dadu Majra.
The Governor visited the dumping ground and legacy mining site at Dadumajra today in the presence of Sh. Anup Gupta, Mayor, Sh. Dharam Pal, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, Sh. Nitin Kumar Yadav, IAS, Secretary Local Government, Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, MCC & CEO, Chandigarh Smart City Ltd., Sh. Kanwarjeet Singh, Senior Deputy Mayor, Sh. Kuldeep Kumar, area councillor and other councillors and officers of MCC & CSCL.
Expressing concern about the health and hygiene of residents of Dadumajra, the Governor directed the officers concerned to clear the backlog of RDF lying inside the boundary wall at earliest. He directed the officers to speed up the process to clear the rest of the legacy waste from the mining site with additional processing by putting more manpower and machinery if required.
The Commissioner apprised the Governor that the work of Legacy Waste Mining of 5 Lac Ton has been completed under Smart City Mission. Now the agency is lifting the RDF stacked at site and approx. 20 acre of land will be reclaimed and thereafter,soil from Patiala ki Rao will be used to level the area.
The Governor directed the concerned officers to immediately give the required clearances for lifting of soil. The Municipal Commissioner, Chandigarh-cum-Chief Executive Officer, Chandigarh Smart City Limited assured that the work of recovering of this 20 acre land shall be completed in the month of August 2023.
The Governor was further apprised that the temporary plant for composting shall be set up on this land only. The Governor desired that the same be set up expeditiously. Further, the Governor directed the officials to speed up the work of reconstruction of the boundary wall which had fallen during the rainy season, the bio remediation of legacy waste and setting up of both the temporary composting plant as well as the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plant.
