Kochi: Rs 1 crore fine slapped on civic body

Kochi | Friday | 26th October, 2018

Summary:

It has also asked the corporation to file a performance guarantee deposit of Rs 3 crore to the board and get the waste treatment plant regularized in six months. Apart from filling the land with waste, the leachate has trickled into the water body. The present temporary measures are inadequate to handle the leachate, which will increase on a rainy day. Under the Kadambrayar Protection Samithi, we filed a petition on the Kadambrayar river pollution along with it,” said Abdul Basheer, petitioner and resident of the panchayat.He alleged that the leachate generated from the garbage so dumped were flowing to the nearby rivers. Presently, the leachate is flowing from the landfills..