Pune: Environmental clearance report sought for Pimpri Sandas land

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The said land is a 50-acre area which can be approached via Kesanand and is in the middle of the forest land, 40 km away from the city off the Pune-Ahmednagar Highway.

“With the dumping to be done or treatment which is to carried out here, the air quality will have to be assessed and put before the government. The PMC has been asked to give a report on it,” said a senior government official.

Javadekar had cleared the hurdles for a land site as the PMC was earlier stuck with Vadu and Tulapur, as given by the district collectorate.

However, with opposition from the villagers, there was no alternative and finally, the forest land was finalised with the villagers from Urali Devachi continuing to protest.

The PMC said about 19.9 hectare (around 50 acre) land will be allotted for the project and it has cleared that citizens residing around the proposed site will not suffer from the dumping. The distance between the residential areas and actual dumping site is wide, so garbage will not create any nuisance for the residents.

Transportation of garbage from Pune to this location will not harm the villagers either as a separate road will be laid to ferry the waste from the city to the dumping site. It will not go through the village, stated the officials.

The civic body is finding it tough to segregate dry and mixed waste as the processing plants in Uruli Phursungi have either shut down or are not functioning to their capacity.

The civic body is processing some of it at its units in different parts of the city, but their capacity is too less to deal with the enormous volume of waste generated every day.

Pune city used to generate around 300 tonne garbage every day in 1991.

It has now increased to nearly 1,700 tonne, of which around 950 tonne is segregated. The remaining 750 tonne is mixed garbage.