Dimapur, April 6 (EMN): Two colonies located in the vicinity of the Dimapur Municipal Council’s (DMC) garbage disposal site in Burma Camp have asked the Nagaland Pollution Control Board (NPCB) to take the DMC to task for what they alleged was the civic body’s violation of the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) ruling.
The councils of Sunrise colony and Naga Colony on April 4 lodged a complaint against the DMC to the office of the NPCB. A copy of the letter of complaint was made available to the local press on Friday.
In the letter, the two councils alleged that the DMC was burning waste comprising plastic materials at the disposal site. “The Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 prohibits open burning of waste/plastic waste,” the letter read.
Also, they pointed out that the NPCB had already notified through the local newspapers in 2017 about the NGT order which announced penalty “for each such incident or default, violators including the project proponent, concessioner, ULB, any person or body responsible for such burning which shall be liable to pay environmental compensation of Rs.5,000 in case of simple burning, while Rs.25,000 in case of bulk waste burning environmental compensation shall be recovered as arrears of land revenue by the competent authority in accordance with law”.
The DMC, the councils have argued, is no exception to the rule. However the NPCB has yet to take action against the DMC even as the burning of waste materials continues, they alleged.
“This is hazardous to health and the residents are falling prey to its ill effects,” the letter read. It asked the NPCB to penalise the DMC and to immediately stop burning waste materials.
