Vadhu Budruk and Tulapur - 2 new garbage processing sites for Pune

To address the city’s garbage woes for next 10 years, the state government has decided on two more garbage processing sites for Pune city.

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Among the several sites proposed by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) through the Pune district collector to the state government, Vadhu Budruk on Nagar Road and Tulapur on Alandi Road last week got the final nod. A third site is in discussion.

A senior government officer said the two sites of 25 acres each have been approved and is awaiting formal sanctions.

The strike called by the villagers of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi ended on Friday after a long discussion with the district collector and civic officials. The villagers were also assured of a drinking water supply scheme to ensure that they receive good quality water. The open dumping of waste will also end by May 31.

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Garbage piles to be cleared in a day: PMC:

After blocking garbage dumping for five days, villagers of Mantarwadi, Urali-Devachi , Phursungi and Bhekrainagar withdrew their agitation on Friday evening following discussions with the municipal corporation and the district officials.

“Immediately after the withdrawal of agitation, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has started cleaning operations and the about 5,000 metric tonne waste piled up in the city from Monday will be cleared by Saturday evening,” said Suresh Jagtap, head of the PMC’s solid waste department.

After the recent fire at the dumping site at Urali-Devachi and subsequent blocking of PMC’s garbage trucks by the villagers on Monday,the civic body has not lifted garbage in the city. Read More:

PCMC’s mechanised composting plant to start next month:

The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s (PCMC) ambitious mechanical composting project, which is expected to help it save Rs 4.75 crore on garbage processing, becomes operational in June. “The health department incurs an expenditure of Rs 2 crore on machinery and employees annualy and spends another Rs 2.75 crore on garbage processing,” Nagkumar Kunchagi, chief medical officer, said.

Kunchagi said that around 500 tonnes of garbage is generated in Pimpri-Chinchwad daily. This is dumped at the Moshi depot, spread over 80 acres. “It has a limited capacity and if the dumping continues at the present rate, we will soon run out of space. So we came up with the mechanical composting project at the garbage depot, which will help reduce the volume of garbage dumped at the depot,” Kunchagi said.

The project is being undertaken under the Jawaharlal Nehru National urban Renewal Mission at a cost of Rs 12.5 crore. The Union government has contributed 50% of the cost, the state government 20%, while the PCMC has borne the remainder of the expenditure.

“We will recover our investment in the first year itself. The PCMC will save Rs 4.75 crore annualy for the 20-year period during which the contractor will run the plant,” Kunchagi pointed out.

He added that the contractor will also earn carbon credits from the initiative. “He will pass on 25% of the carbon credits to the PCMC, which we can sell to generate revenue,” he added. Read More:

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Phursungi-Urali villagers to again block dumping of garbage

No Dumping from December 25:

The villagers of Phursungi-Urali are on the warpath again. For the third time this year, they have decided to stop municipal corporation vehicles from disposing of the city’s garbage in the open dumping site in their villages.

“We have written to the authorities concerned about our decision to bar dumping from December 25,” said Ranjit Raskar, member of the Phursungi gram panchayat.

The continued shoddy management of garbage by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the seepage of toxic waste at the dumping site are the main reasons for the agitation.

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Congress, NCP differ on garbage disposal issues

The first signs of discord between the ruling NCP-Congress combine in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) was witnessed during the standing committee meeting on Tuesday, when members of the two parties differed on several issues concerning the garbage depot at Urali.

The discord, admitted by members of both the parties, started over a proposal to appoint 61 people as conservancy workers on contract basis. All the 61 people are residents of Urali village where the PMC had acquired six hectares for garbage disposal way back in 1961. The 61 people, belonging to families whose land has been acquired, are being considered as "project-affected people.

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Urali and Phursungi villagers set May '10 deadline for ending garbage dumping

Strongly opposing the Pune Municipal Corporation's plan to continue dumping of garbage at the Urali garbage depot, members of the Phursungi gram panchayat set May 2010 as the deadline for completely stopping garbage dumping there.

The demands of the residents in Urali and Phursungi have come at a time when the PMC's earlier deadline to complete various development works at the villages comes to an end on December 14.

Making their stand clear on a request made by the district collectorate to allow the PMC to dump garbage till May next year, the village panchayat charged that the PMC had flouted all norms regarding waste disposal in the last nine years and carelessly dumped garbage despite severe opposition from the residents of Urali and Phursungi. The panchayat said that it has no right to take a decision on extending the time limit for the PMC to allow dumping of garbage.

In a resolution, the panchayat said that the PMC should take permission from the concerned authorities as per the solid waste management rules 2000 and submit copies of the permission to the panchayat. Large-scale dumping of garbage has already affected the environment, the panchayat added. The PMC' s attempt to start a vermi-composting plant at the site last month had caused confusion among the residents, it added.

The panchayat, in one of its important demands, has asked for complete details with maps of the scientific capping work of garbage is being done at the garbage depot. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, in May this year, had directed the PMC to complete the scientific capping work by May 2010.

In May this year, the residents of the villages had launched an agitation wherein all garbage dumpers were prevented from going to the depot. The agitation continued for 12 days which resulted in accumulation of garbage all over the city.

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PMC drafts new policy to facilitate land acquisition for setting up waste processing plants

Faced with several problems in acquiring land outside the city limits for setting up waste processing plants, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has come up with a new compensation policy for landowners and those affected by the projects.

The policy, which has been approved by the PMC general body last week, will be sent to the state government for final approval.

Setting up new waste processing units is one of the priorities for the PMC since the Phursungi and Urali villagers have set a December deadline to stop dumping of waste at the land-fill site in their villages.

The PMC was planning to acquire at least four sites for the last six months, but it has not had any breakthrough in any of the cases.

The civic body has gathered that the people refuse to yield their land because they the fear that the area would face problems like those faced by Phursungi. Many attempts to acquire land have not been successful since the residents of the area agitated against such projects.

A senior civic official, however, said that the citizens failed to understand that these sites are not for dumping grounds but for processing plants, which won't be a nuisance.

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Garbage dump deadline draws near, no alternative plan in sight

Pune city is staring at a major problem as the December 15 deadline for stopping garbage dumping in Uruli Devachi draws near with no alternative location in place.

As a temporary measure, the civic administration is now busy exploring the possibility of using land in each of the 14 wards in the city for waste management.

The government has summoned the civic officials on Friday to discuss the issue. “We are aware of the deadline and are working on a solution,” said Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagade.

According to civic officials, the PMC has not been able to find a solution. The process of identifying landfill sites at four places in the district is on. The district administration suggested sites for dumping, but they belong to forest department. “It will be almost impossible to get an approval from the Union environment ministry for developing the forest land for dumping,” sources said.

“We have been able to identify 10 locations at the ward-level for garbage processing using bio-gas plants. Two plants have started functioning but there is opposition from citizens against biogas plants coming up in residential localities,” he said.

Even the efforts to process waste in the PMC-owned gardens is facing opposition, Jagtap said. Meanwhile, the villagers of Uruli Devachi are in no mood to accept any more excuse by the civic body. “We called off the agitation in May after the civic body sought seven months to resolve the issue. However, the assurances have not been fulfilled,” said Dilip Mehta, member of Kachra Depot Hatao Sangharsha Samiti.

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Model Colony in Pune gets first bio-gas plant

From garbage to bio-gas and from bio-gas to power. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)'s first non-conventional energy project was commissioned at Model Colony on Friday afternoon, paving the way for a possible solution to one of the vexed problems of garbage disposal in the city.

Installed at a cost of Rs 48 lakh, the plant has capacity to process nearly five tonnes of garbage, i.e. all that is generated in the area per day and generate 250 to 300 bio-gas units, which would help generate electricity, enough to keep the street lights in the area glowing.

Senior BJP corporator from the area, Jyotsna Sardespande, who got the project implemented, said it would help the PMC save at least Rs five lakh per year. "You need 40 people and two hydraulic vans to clear the garbage in the area everyday. Moreover, the garbage has to be carried all the way to Urali Devachi entailing fuel costs,'' Sardeshpande said. But the new plant will need no more than four employees to monitor and execute the disposal process.

Apart from generating electricity, the system yields enough by-products from the garbage in the form of slurry to be used as fertilizer. This is part of the PMC's endeavor to decentralize disposal process of the nearly 1,200 tonnes of garbage generated in the city each day following strong resistance from villagers in Urali Devachi and Phursungi to allow any more dumping. Sakaal Times

2 more bio-gas plants to come up in other parts of Pune:

Director of Enprotech Solutions Company Sanjay Nandre has helped the civic body set up the plant. He said that the bio-methanisation technique developed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre will be used at the plant.

"The company has already set up similar projects in other cities. All the plants are performing well and people living near the plants have not complained of any foul smell," he said.

Nadre said the power generated will be adequate to light up 30 streetlights for four to five hours everyday. "The company is also setting up two more projects in other parts of the city," he said, adding that they will run the plant for the initial five years before handing it over to the civic body. Read More: DNA

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Necessary action would be taken if Pune Municipal Corporation doesn't resolve garbage dumping issue soon

State Environment Secretary Valsa Nair has written to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) over the long-pending issue of shifting of garbage dumping sites from Uruli Devachi and Phursungi.

"I can’t understand why the civic authorities are not taking speedy action," she said on Saturday.

Though alternative sites have been selected, senior PMC officials said they do not want to make it public because of the fear of agitation.

For small towns and cities, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) in association with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and civic councils has set up smaller units for solid waste management. Nearly 25 such units have come up in the state and another 17 such units would come up this year.
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