No bio-medical plant,we’ll install incinerator: UT to HC

The petitioner had sought stalling of the incinerator in General Hospital in Sector 16,next to the residential area,which is being used for burning bio-medical waste without any air-pollution control device in place. The administration in 2008 had decided to install a common unified bio-medical waste facility for the city in Dadumajra. The administration had submitted before the High Court that expressions of interest (EOI) had been invited to install the plant. Taking this stand on record,the PIL was disposed of.

On Friday,the administration moved the High Court seeking recalling of the order. Notices were issued to the petitioner by the High Court on the application moved by the administration.

“Due to huge cost of land in Chandigarh and its poor experience in awarding the project for setting up the solid waste treatment plant at Dadumajra to a private entity on the PPP model,it may not be in public interest to award the work for setting up the common bio-medical waste treatment plant to a private entity under the public private partnership (PPP) model. The Chandigarh Administration is of the view that the bio-medical waste generated in Chandigarh can be treated either at the treatment plants in Punjab,Haryana and Himachal Pradesh within a radius of 150 km or at a treatment plant set up by the Chandigarh Administration itself through its own engineering department,” reads the application moved by the administration.