GUWAHATI: Following the intervention of Pollution Control Board, Assam (PCBA) and amid public protests, dumping of garbage at Chandrapur has been “temporarily” stopped since August 5.
The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has re-started dumping of garbage at a new site in Boragaon located close to the Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary.
The new dumping site is about 1 km away from the earlier site at Boragaon which was discontinued following an Assam government direction on June 24 asking the Kamrup Metropolitan district to use the newly chosen Chandrapur site in the eastern suburbs of the city to dump garbage.
Assam environment and forest minister Parimal Suklabaidya, in a written reply to a question from Congress legislator Asif Mohammad Nazar on Wednesday, informed the state assembly that the department concerned didn’t avail the ‘environment clearance’ from the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) along with ‘consent to establish’ and ‘authorization certificate’ from the state pollution control board to dump garbage at Chandrapur. In his reply, the minister said that on July 28, 2021, the GMC applied to the state pollution control board for the ‘authorization certificate’ to establish the dumping ground at Chandrapur.
