Shift garbage depot, PCMC tells KCB

The KCB has been dumping its garbage at the depot behind the Dai-Ichi company near Kasarwadi for 30 years. The PCMC had earlier made attempts to stop the KCB trucks from entering the Pimpri-Chinchwad limits and thus prevent them from dumping the garbage.

The garbage depot spread over 23-acre land is close to civic locality. Incidentally, the land is owned by the KCB and the practices of dumping the garbage is in continuance even before the erstwhile Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Council was formed. With the growing nature of the township, the PCMC has asked the KCB authorities to stop the dumping garbage at the place as it vitiated the surrounding and is a potential health hazard. The KCB dumps nearly 22-tonne garbage brought by as many as 30 trucks everyday.

A plan for creating a garbage depot for the PCMC, the KCB and the Dehu Road Cantonment Board on defence land near Dehu Road had earlier been proposed. However the military authorities rejected the proposal.

At a meeting held over the weekend, Municipal Commissioner Pravinsinh Pardeshi asked KCB chief executive officer Ajay Kumar to dump the garbage at the Moshi depot of the municipal corporation.

When contacted, Ajay Kumar said that a decision regarding the garbage depot would be taken only at the monthly board meeting.

The PCMC has shifted its own garbage depot from Bhosari to Moshi two years back. Pardeshi said that it was necessary that the KCB too closed down its garbage depot near Kasarwadi. Over 350 pits have been dug at the garbage depot from which local farmers take organic manure for their fields.