Hamirpur garbage plant a ‘waste’

Hamirpur, While the Hamirpur Nagar Parishad had not utilised a solid waste management plant, set up about five years ago near Dugnedi village on the outskirts of Hamirpur, to its optimum, nagar parishad workers continue to dump the garbage on a nearby hill polluting water of two supply schemes drawn from the Hathli.The plant was established in a deep forest near Dugnedi village, about five km from here, by the Hamirpur Nagar Parishad in 2005 by spending about Rs 1.3 crore.The main purpose was to segregating the garbage and preparing manure from the solid waste and disposing of the garbage in a scientific manner without polluting the environment. Strangely, the authorities concerned have not only failed to utilise the plant to its optimum but the employees are still dumping garbage on a nearby hill, polluting potable water schemes. A team of journalists that visited here recently found a lot of garbage dumped on the nearby hill, flowing into Hathli .The potable water for two schemes i.e. Nalti and Masyana- Bazuri is drawn from the Hathli khud, which supply water to many villages in the surrounding area.A villager from Dugnedi, Bimla Devi, said: “The authorities had earlier assured that the garbage would not be dumped in the open and they would prepare manure after establishing the waste management plant but to no avail.”Another villager Sanjeev Kumar said: “The garbage dumped on the hill is polluting water in the Hathli khud from where water is drawn for our potable water supply scheme.”President, Hamirpur Nagar Parishad, Deep Kumar said: “We have issued an instruction not to dump garbage outside the waste management plant and will look into the matter at the earliest.”