Congress councillors against MC's decision to establish MRF centres at Alipur village

Municipal councillors associated with the Congress party in Panchkula have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Municipal Corporation's decision to establish MRF centres to process the city's garbage at Alipur village in Ward 20. The councillors today met Mayor Kulbhushan Goyal and submitted a memorandum regarding the same.

The eight councillors, in a unified memorandum submitted to the MC, said the dumping ground should be established away from the city and village population. They said they had been informed that the Jhuriwala dumping ground was being shifted to Alipur.

They said, "The residents of Alipur are already troubled by the problem of flies caused by poultry farms. If the dumping ground is shifted there, the lives of the residents will become miserable."

They said the MC had established MRF centres at the Jhuriwala ground in defiance of the orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

"The garbage of the entire city and villages is dumped at Jhuriwala every day without segregation of dry and wet garbage. It remains unattended at the site for many days, leading to problems for surrounding villages and sectors."

Councillors Salim Khan, Sandeep Sohi, Usha Rani, and others said, "All of us strongly oppose the transfer of the ground to Alipur. We have already been demanding the Municipal Corporation, Panchkula, to shift the dumping ground away from the population or the city so that the lives of the common people living nearby it are not adversely affected," they said.

The councillors want the MC to remove the MRF centre from Jhuriwala and send the city's garbage waste to Patvi in Ambala.

The project:

The MC, in a recent meeting of the finance and contract committee on November 11, decided to establish an MRF centre at Alipur on a land measuring 3.5 acres. Mayor Kulbhushan Goyal, Commissioner Aparajita, engineers of various wings of the MC, along with Ward 13 Councillor Sunit Singla and Ward 10 Councillor Gurmail Kaur were present during the meeting. The MC aims to build 800 compost pits, a drainage system, segregation points, leachete treatment, sheds, and a boundary wall, among other facilities, costing nearly Rs 2.47 crore.