Residents write to Haryana CM against decision

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, April 24

Residents of Sector 25 here have written to Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar against the local civic authorities’ decision to dump garbage at the Jhuriwala site, which is just a few metres from the residential area.

“We protest the directions issued by Haryana Speaker Gian Chand Gupta to the civic body for dumping the garbage of the entire city at the Jhuriwala site,” said BR Mehta, senior vice-president of a citizen committee.

He said it would contaminate the groundwater in the surrounding areas.

“Adverse impact of heaps of garbage at dumping ground in Sector 23 is before all of us. It has made the groundwater from all tube wells in the vicinity unfit for human consumption,” Mehta said.

He urged the authorities to shift the proposed solid waste management plant from Jhuriwala to a place which is distant from the residential population of the trans-Ghaggar sectors. He warned if their demands were not taken into consideration, they would launch a protest.