Waste project locked in land tangle - Piled up garbage leads to pollution and unhygienic conditions in Paradip

MANOJ KAR

GARBAGE DUMPED NEAR BANGALIPADA WASTELAND ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF PARADIP. TELEGRAPH PICTURE Paradip, April 21: The World Bank funded solid waste management project under the Integrated Coastal Zone Management Programme (ICZM) in Paradip is locked in a land tangle. The Rs 16 crore project requires 22 acres of compact patch of land within the port town. However, the Paradip Port Trust (PPT) is hit by scarcity of land for its infrastructure expansion programme. The port town still goes without an urban solid waste management and treatment system with accumulated solid wastes sparking off pollution and unhygienic condition. Huge volume of solid waste that is generated everyday is being disposed off in a dumpyard on outskirts of the township. As mechanism to waste treatment is absent, its hazardous effect is largely felt in some localities near the dumpyard in Bangalipada. “The project is of great significance to a growing industrial township like Paradip. According to the project, the state-of-the-art solid waste treatment plant would be installed to treat and process waste and garbage in a modernised technology,” executive officer of the Paradip Municipality Surath Mallick. “We have identified the suitable land patch at Kansaripatia within the municipality area. The land is owned by the PPT. The port trust authorities have been requested to hand over it so that the much-needed project could be implemented at the earliest,” Mallick said. “The PPT is suffering from acute scarcity of land. Owing to the port’s infrastructure development, we badly require more government land. We have written to the state government for providing us with more land as we are planning to relocate the township to a new place,” said said secretary of the PPT Pravat Kumar Nanda. “However, still we are looking forward to allotting land to the municipality so that the waste management project could be implemented,” Nanda added Everyday, 48 metric tonnes of solid waste and garbage are generated from the municipality jurisdiction. As the enormous quantity of solid waste is getting deposited, there is a need to treat and process it to maintain hygiene. However, the ground reality remains on the contrary. The filth and garbage fill the air with stench smell. Moreover, the dumpyard has turned into a congenial breeding ground for mosquitoes. Paradip, April 21: The World Bank funded solid waste management project under Integrated Coastal Zone Management Programme (ICZM) in Paradip town is locked in a land tangle. Rs 16 crore worth ICZM project is in requirement of 22 acre stretch of land within the port town. But the root of the problem is that Paradip port trust is hit by severe dearth of land for its infrastructure expansion programme. There is hardly the availability of land within the port town for execution of such ambitious World Bank project. The bustling port town still goes without an urban solid waste management and treatment system with accumulated solid wastes sparking off pollution and unhygienic environment. Huge volume of solid waste that is being generated everyday from the port town is presently being disposed off in a dump yard on the outskirts of the port township. As mechanism to treat the wastes is conspicuous by its absence, it’s hazardous effect is largely felt in sum localities, located nearby the dumping yard near Bangalipada. “The project is of great significance to a growing industrial township like Paradip. As per the ICZM project, the state-of-the-art solid waste treatment plant would be installed to treat and process the waste and garbage in a modernised technology” Surath Mallick, Executive Officer, Paradip Municipality. The project is in requirement of at least 22 acre stretch of compact patch of land. We have identified the suitable land patch at Kansaripatia within the municipality. The said land is owned by PPT. The Port trust authorities have been requested to hand over the same so that the much-needed project could be implemented at the earliest, Mallick, municipality executive officer maintained. “The PPT is in acute scarcity of land. For infrastructure development of the port, we badly require more government land. We wrote to the state government for providing us with more land as we are planning to relocate the existing port township to a new place. Still we are planning to allot land to the municipality as the solid waste management project is an important national coastal management programme”, observed Pravat Kumar Nanda, Secretary, PPT. Everyday, 48 metric ton of solid wastes and garbage is being generated from the municipality jurisdiction. As enormous quantity of solid wastes is getting deposited every day, there is the need to treat and process it for maintenance of hygiene in the port town. But the ground reality remains on the contrary. The filth and garbage fills the air with stench smell. Besides the dumping yard has turned into a congenial breeding ground for mosquitoes. (sourced from the telegraph)