Divn commissioner’s lens on garbage processing

Aurangabad | Monday | 18th February, 2019

Summary:

The civic body was only recently rapped by the high court, with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board contradicting its claims on garbage processing. Aurangabad: Divisional commissioner Sunil Kendrekar has asked the civic body to get ready for a review of its garbage collection, segregation and processing. The divisional commissioner is set to visit centres where the civic body claims to be carrying out segregation of garbage and processing, to take stock of the situation.Residents of Padegaon have moved the HC alleging rampant violation by the civic body in processing hundreds of tonnes of garbage. The civic body is also being blamed for alleged rampant violations of high court directives.Sources said the garbage matter has now become the most pressing for the civic body to deal with. A private agency had been roped in to collect garbage and process it, in the hope that indiscriminate dumping would end..