News Dated: 20 May 2009
A week after the villagers of Urali Devachi and Phursungi withdrew their agitation over the garbage depot issue, following an assurance from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to find an alternate site and work upon solutions in next seven months commissioner Mahesh Zagade has once again promised that the garbage depot issue will be his top agenda and that all problems pertaining to it will be solved in the next seven months.
A week after the villagers of Urali Devachi and Phursungi withdrew their agitation over the garbage depot issue, following an assurance from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to find an alternate site and work upon solutions in next seven months commissioner Mahesh Zagade has once again promised that the garbage depot issue will be his top agenda and that all problems pertaining to it will be solved in the next seven months.
Zagade had earlier made it clear on the first day of his taking charge as the commissioner that the garbage depot issue will be resolved during his tenure. His reassurance came at a special meeting of corporators and civic officials called by Mayor Rajlaxmi Bhosale to discuss the plan to stop the dumping at the depot and finding a new site.
The meeting started with Bhosale appealing to all corporators to take a lead in starting the processing of garbage in their respective wards. "Every corporator should take a lead and think how a minimum of five tonne garbage could be processed within the ward.
Unless something is done at micro level, the issue of garbage cannot be solved," she said.
Zagade said, "Garbage is a crisis that the city faces and has to be dealt with from different fronts. We have promised the villagers a solution in seven months so it is necessary for us to finish the work within the given deadline. It is also a testing time for the civic administration and we will solve the issue once and for all using all means." Corporator Dattoba Sasane from Sasanenagar ward said, "The wet and organic waste is actually beneficial to farmers hence the PMC should give them to farmers. However, it should be kept in mind that there should be no plastic component in it." BJP corporator Anil Shirole suggested that people could keep cattle at the housing societies to get rid of the wet garbage. "The cattle will consume this organic waste and the dung could later be utilised to generate biogas." Dr Siddharth Dhende said, "Those housing projects which have more than 100 flats should be compelled to have a separate garbage processing unit on the premises." Avinash Bagwe suggested holding interward garbage free competitions to build a positive attitude while BJP corporator Ujwal Keskar said that unless the civic body has a proper system to segregate the garbage, it should not issue notices to citizens.
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