The Times of India        29.09.2014  

MCG messes up malba disposal plan

GURGAON: Though the MCG has engaged itself in a major cleanliness drive across the city, it is paying little attention to construction and demolition (C&D) waste that is increasingly enveloping the city with each passing day.

It has been almost a year since the MCG announced having identified four sites where residents can dump malba (C&D waste). These sites, at villages Choma, Gadhauli Kalan, Mullahera and Kherki Majra, are inaccessible, and many seem to be unaware about them. Field experts, however, said the sites identified by the MCG were not suitable for throwing C&D waste.

The MCG has not issued any official letter or notified any of its contractors about the dumping of C&D waste at these four designated sites. On paper, meanwhile, the MCG has said that anybody found dumping C&D waste in places apart from the four mentioned, will be penalized.

"The entire city is turning into a huge malba dumping ground. In fact, A couple of days ago I recorded a truck offloading malba in Aravali zone off the Gurgaon-Faridabad road. I showed it to the MCG commissioner who promised to place security guards in that area to prevent such incidents in the future. On Saturday, however, I saw a truck doing the same thing on the same road and I could not see a single guard anywhere in the vicinity," Ruchika Sethi, a resident, said.

"In the given circumstances I am doing my best," MCG commissioner Vikas Yadav said, adding he would take stock of the situation only next week.