Summary:
The notice has stated that there is no separation between the processing site and the leachate system, and only part of the leachate collection and treatment work has been commissioned. The authorities have also not come up with a time-bound plan to complete reclamation of the site. That too, when not enough provisions have been made to treat the deadly leachate that leads to severe groundwater pollution. A report of CPCB (Central Pollution Control Board) in 2017, termed the groundwater in Bandhwari, Mangar (Faridabad) and Dera (Delhi) ‘unfit for drinking’. The agency said that the leachate treatment plant had been operational at Bandhwari since April 2018.But activists blamed authorities for major environmental damage at the site, which is situated in the Aravalis..