Press Release
On 20 May 2018, at A-2/302, Laram Centre, SV Road, Andheri (West), a meeting of the National Council of CoRWA was convened to give a call to create ‘SANITARY LAND FILLS’ instead of Dumping Grounds. “ We should do composting. We should recycle the waste. We should segregate the waste in to bio-degradable and non-biodegradable right at the source. These are all evolutionary practices. People will take a very long time to understand them because we had to carry out extensive publicity to teach people that defecation in the open is not good. Therefore, some measures have to be taken immediately. Delhi and Mumbai have burnt their hands by creating dumping grounds which have now become dumping hills. Because of pressure and temperature, the waste dumps produce methane which is inflammable. Hence frequent fires in the waste dumps are becoming unmanageable. Let us create number of “Sanitary Land Fills”- big ditches in the LMC grounds of the urban civic bodies ; fill these ditches with waste, compact, cover them with mud on the top and plant grass and trees thereafter once they are saturated. No land is wasted in this exercise. However, it is a continuous process.
It was also decided in the meeting of the National Council that Municipal Corporations will be approached to issue Municipal Bonds for rapid development of the Cities.
Col Tejandra Pal Tyagi, Convener, CoRWA
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1 Comments
Dear Sirs,
ReplyDeleteSanitary landfills is a good step for immediate solutions, but my concern is that this will lead to creation of more barren lands. Outwardly the land may look green but such landfills will eat away fertility of soil.
Only solution to waste issue is asking RWAs to follow zero waste policy. Member RWAs of CORWA should set an example for communities to follow. Let us try micro solutions as macro solutions have failed.
Solution to the problem lies in the hands of creator of problem i.e. in this case responsibility lies with the citizens. It is uphill task for RWAs but successes will be very uplifting and motivating.
Best regards,
Ranju Minhas, Secretary MMRWA,
Phase 1, New Delhi. (via email)