Garbage dumping still an issue for EBM

Statesman News Service

MALDA, 22 JULY: The English Bazaar Municipality (EBM) have again started to face difficulties in dumping garbage, when locals protested such an act in the newly selected spot at Namasarai village.

Having faced villagers' resistance there, the EBM shifted its dumping ground to the earlier site, located at Chandan Park in Ward no 25 from yesterday. But the members of the newly formed “Paribesh Dushan Pratirodh Committee” blocked the road and stopped dumping there. Finally, the EBM, with the help of police protection, dumped garbage at Chandan Park this morning.

The chairman of the EBM, Mr Narendranath Tiwari, said that they have decided to dump garbage at Chandan Park for a few more days.

Residents of the Chandan Park finally have allowed them to dump garbage for the next three days after the civic body and administration requested the local people several times.

Mr Tiwari said: “We have faced resistance from the local people at Nimasaria due to certain technical problems. It was for this reason we decided to dump garbage at Chandan Park for a few days and to take up the infrastructure work at the new place to begin the solid waste management project there.”

“We need to build roads at Namasarai to avoid villagers’ resistance. The municipal engineering department will start constructing a boundary wall at the new site where nearly three acres of land have been selected for this project," he added.

Though the EBM have started the new project but at Namasaraiat least 15 per cent garbage collected from the English Bazaar town will be dumped at Chandan Park in future, Mr Tiwari said.

The CPI-M councillor of Ward no 25 and member of the resistance committee, Mr Dulal Nandan Chaki said: “Following requests of the administration we decided to allow the EBM to dump garbage here for the next few days. After some days the EBM has to change its site”.