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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Shameful that garbage hill can kill: Tribunal

Shameful that garbage hill can kill: Tribunal

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published Published on Sep 5, 2017   modified Modified on Sep 5, 2017
-PTI

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal today came down heavily on the AAP government and the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) over the Ghazipur landfill collapse in which two persons were killed, saying "nothing can be more humiliating than people being killed under garbage hill".

The green panel issued notices to them while directing them to show cause why punitive action should not be taken against the Delhi government and criminal proceedings be not initiated against EDMC officials over the "unfortunate" incident.

"Why did you not carry out the directions of the tribunal which have been issued time and again? Are people of Delhi expected to meet this fate? Are they supposed to die under a garbage dump? We had asked you to reduce the height of the dump and take appropriate measures for reduction of the waste. Why didn't you do it?

"It is unfortunate that in the capital of the country, people have died under the garbage hill because of improper, unscientific and indiscriminate dumping of municipal solid waste at this site. You are killing people in the national capital under the hill of garbage. It cannot be more humiliating," a bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar said.

The tribunal said civic bodies and authorities concerned have violated orders of the panel on reduction of dumped waste and took no "collective" steps to ensure that garbage was "processed, segregated and compressed" without delay.

"Why should tribunal not award compensation to the family of the persons who died as a result of this unfortunate incident which resulted from sheer negligence of authorities," the bench, also comprising Justice R.S. Rathore, said. It posted the matter for the next hearing on September 12.

It also issued notice to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to show cause why it has not started lifting segregated waste despite specific direction of the tribunal.

EDMC lawyer Balendu Shekhar said the corporation had already moved a plea seeking allotment of land to develop sanitary landfills to handle municipal solid waste.

He said there was an immediate requirement of alternate land as the Ghazipur landfill site which handles 13 metric tonnes of waste has outlived its normal life span.

The Delhi Development Authority was also issued notice by the bench and explain why appropriate site has not been given to the corporations for dumping of the waste.

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The Telegraph, 4 September, 2017, https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170905/jsp/nation/story_170901.jsp


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