Animal Carcass Plant: Chandigarh MC to take final decision today

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 30

The issue of location for opening the city’s first animal carcass plant continues to hang fire.

After scrapping the idea of opening it in the Industrial Area and then in Sector 25, the MC is bringing the agenda in the Monday’s House meeting for final decision.

Local councillor Sheela Devi had objected to the proposal of setting it up at the processing plant site in Sector 25. Before that, councillor Shakti Prakash Devshali had opposed the plan of opening it in Industrial Area.

Residents said it would cause foul smell and air pollution in their area. Thus, the work on it could not move further.

At present, dead animals are disposed of in the dumping ground or forest areas. It is the duty of the MC to remove and dispose of dead animals.

According to the initial plans, the plant will have two burners. The environment-friendly plant will have 30-m high chimney. It will also have the facility of cold storage and automatic loading.

Animals will be cremated with commercial LPGs.

Starts shifting waste

The MC has started the process of shifting waste dumped at the garbage processing plant, Sector 25, to the dumping ground in Dadumajra for biomining. The work is expected to be completed in two months for nearly Rs80 lakh. More than 25,000 metric tonnes of waste is lying at the site, which causes odour and leachate in the plant. The MC general House approved it in its last meeting. At present, there is 5 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste at the dumping site. The waste is being biomined.

The MC took over the plant from the Jaypee Group recently and has been running the plant itself.