MC to spend Rs 4.35 crore to make Mohali garbage-free

Tribune News Service

Mohali, July 26

In an attempt to make Mohali a garbage free city, the Municipal Corporation here would be spending Rs 4.35 crore on segregating of trash and levelling of the dumping ground at Phase 8B.

Inaugurating the project, Mayor Amarjit Singh Jeeti Sidhu said a large number industries and some residential houses were located in the vicinity of the dumping ground and all of them were in favour of moving it to some other place.

He said the industrialists had been claiming that neither were they getting employees for their units nor the investors were encouraged to visit the area.

Sidhu was accompanied by Senior Deputy Mayor Amrik Singh Somal and Deputy Mayor Kuljit Singh Bedi.

The Mayor said the contractor company would segregate the garbage through machines and the debris, bereft of plastic and other non-degradable waste, would be used to fill the low lying area, adding that the entire dumping ground would be leveled.

Sidhu said at the same time the infrastructure in the industrial area was being strengthened and the entire area would be cleared of weeds and roads would be repaired. Also, new roads will be constructed wherever needed, he said.

President, Mohali Industries Association, Yogesh Sagar thanked the Mayor and said the initiative would not only have a positive impact on the industries in Mohali but would also drastically improve the image of the industrial sector.