Indian Express 04.03.2010
Pimpri civic body gets 57 acres more for waste processing
Express News Service Tags : civic, waste processing Posted: Thursday , Mar 04, 2010 at 0403 hrs
Pune: The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) despite having 80 acres of garbage depot at Moshi has been permitted to have another 57 acres of land for waste processing and management by the state government. The PCMC will be implementing new waste disposal project on this 57 acres of land.
When the dumping of garbage at Urali is still a hot topic of discussion, the PCMC officials are saying that this plan is to have a waste processing and management site rather than another garbage dumping ground.
To decide on the land to be used for dumping the waste was to be done by December 2002, and to begin the project, the time PCMC had was till December 2003. It was then when the municipal corporation had finalised 57 acres of land at Punavale in survey number 24. Most of this land is actually owned by the state forest department.
But, in February 2005, this proposal was rejected by the standing committee and the corporation had to send the proposal to the state government. The decision of the state government only came last month and the corporation was informed that the standing committee decision was cancelled.
K Nagkumar, Chief of the Medical and health department said, "We will implement an environment friendly waste processing and management project at the site."
The PCMC now has to spend around 2.6 crore on land acquisition but the project will be funded by the Union government.
