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Cuttack to have separate garbage dumping yard

CUTTACK: The Cuttack city will have a separate garbage dumping yard at Chakradharpur in Baranga block, about 15 km from city. The Orissa High Court on Wednesday directed the district Collector to provide at least 30 acres of land to the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) so that the latter would make all arrangements to use it as a dumping yard by March 31.

This direction from the High Court came when a high-level committee, headed by Advocate-General B.K. Mahanti, informed the court that the earlier proposal of using 62 acres of land at Bhuasuni near the State capital as the common dumping yard for the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubansewar would not be possible due to various technical reasons.

The committee told the High Court that the dumping yard near Bhubaneswar would require permission from the State Pollution Control Board and airport authorities, since the proposed yard is only two km away from the Bhubaneswar airport.

“Moreover, it would be difficult for the CMC authorities to transport the garbage to a distance over 35 km to the Bhuasuni dumping yard,” the committee said. Upon the suggestion of the committee, the division bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice A.K. Ganguly and justice Indrajit Mohanty directed the Cuttack district administration to provide alternative land for the CMC immediately so that the dumping yard should start functioning by this month-end. The High Court also asked the CMC to submit a report to this effect to the court before March 31 and posted the matter to be heard next by that date.

If the new arrangement is successful, then Ravenshaw University would not have any problem to acquire the land for its second campus near Abhinav Bidanasi. The CMC is currently using the land allotted to the university as its dumping yard for which the newly-formed university has raised objections.

It may be mentioned here that on an average, nearly 500 tonnes of garbage are generated in the city and the civic body has no proper management in place for disposal and treatment of these garbage for which a PIL was filed in the Orissa High Court last year.

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