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.

To read more, please, visit The Times of India

Related Story:

November 2009 - Top 10 popular blogs on Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Market News Blog

Subscribe for Free!

To receive free emails or free RSS feeds, please, subscribe to Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Market News Blog

For my blogs on real estate projects near Hinjewadi, real estate investment, advertising and other related topics, please, visit and join my Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Blog Group

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.

To read more, please, visit Express India

Subscribe for Free!

To receive free emails or free RSS feeds, please, subscribe to Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Market News Blog

For my blogs on real estate projects near Hinjewadi, real estate investment, advertising and other related topics, please, visit and join my Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Blog Group

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

Subscribe for Free!

To receive free emails or free RSS feeds, please, subscribe to Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Market News Blog

For my blogs on real estate projects near Hinjewadi, real estate investment, advertising and other related topics, please, visit and join my Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Blog Group

Ajit Pawar, guardian minister, to announce the new site for setting up an additional garbage depot for Pune at the right time!

Pune generates more than 1,500 metric tonnes of solid waste daily

"Locals might raise objections even before the work starts!"

The new depot will have all the advanced technologies in placed for garbage management and treatment, said Pawar, who was speaking at the District Planning And Development Committee meeting.

However, he refused to speak about the location of the proposed depot, stating that locals might raise objections even before the work starts. The site is within Pune district limits and close to the city and it had been selected after a survey which was undertaken by the government.

It has been found that the city needs an additional garbage depot as the existing depot at Urali Devachi is not sufficient to handle the increasing load.
To read more, please, visit - The Times of India

Related Story:

Back to the Future: A visit to Pune's Landfill Urli Devachi

Subscribe for free to receive hot Pune real estate news, views and reviews:

1) Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Market News Blog

2) Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Investment Blog

3) Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Advertising and Marketing Blog

4) Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Blog

5) Please, feel free to call me on my mobile +91 98600 44110! I enjoy talking, sharing my views and giving advice about buying property in Pune real estate market (so i do not charge anything for the first 8 minutes!)

6) Please, join me on Friendfeed, to share news articles, family photos, interesting links and videos and let us discover and discuss information!

Visit Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Blog Group and join for free to receive updates of all blogs!

real estate Indian real estate Pune real estate Pune news Pune news Pune real estate news Pune real estate market Pune real estate market news blog Pune real estate blog Pune property blog Pune realty Pune real estate investment Pune real estate marketing upcoming and ongoing real estate projects in Pune current property rates in Pune latest real estate prices Ravi Karandeekar 91 98600 44110 Friendfeed Ravi Karandeekar\'s Pune Real Estate Blog Group Google Groups