Mayor & Commissioner visits Dumping site Dadumajra
Chandigarh, January 15:- Smt. Raj Bala Malik, Mayor and Sh. K.K Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh visited dumping site Dadumajra, here today. They were accompanied by Senior Deputy Mayor Sh. Ravi Kant Sharma, Deputy Mayor Sh. Jagtar Singh Dhillon, Additional Commissioner Sh. S.K. Jain and other councilors and officers of MCC.
The visit was conducted in order to monitor and to take stock of the work progress in the dumping site and the mining of waste garbage processing plant set up by the initiative of MCC nearby the dumping ground. The Commissioner apprised Mayor about the root cause and the steps being taken by MCC for the elimination of the heap of mountain created by the accumulated garbage.
The Commissioner apprised that to clear the twenty five acres of space overlapped in the layers of garbage, scientific mining has begun under the ‘Smart City’ initiative. The segregation site nearby the dumping ground will process the waste to give a new direction to the unused waste. This legacy mining site was visited by the dignitaries after taking a round of the dumping ground. The Commissioner explained how legacy waste is of three categories i.e Construction and Demolition waste (C and D waste), Municipal Solid Waste and Industrial Waste used for refuse derived fuel (RDF) and fiber work. He explained how steps have been initiated to treat the 500,000 tonnes of waste from dumping ground from where the compostable waste will be brought here in the site and will be dried in the sun for a week or so after the segregation. Through conveyor belts and other machines, separation and segregation shall become an easy task.
The team for the visit consisting of all the eminent personalities met medical and engineering students from Ropar (Punjab) who were present at the legacy mining site. Mayor, Smt. Raj Bala Malik referred them as the ‘Future of India’ and invited suggestions from the students for the development of the processing plant. Sh. K.K Yadav offered internship opportunities to them and invited them to visit other MCC projects’ sites.
The team also visited JP plant to take stock of the garbage lying over there inside the plant and enquired about the daily processing of the garbage by the plant management.
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