AMC’s Gandhigiri forces APMC to toe the line

Guess what could happen if you don’t follow the direction of the civic body! The struggle of AMC officials turned out to be fruitful when they protested in a Gandhian way.   

The health and solid waste department of the civic body had to stop lifting garbage from Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC), Jamalpur, as they were not cooperating with the Ahme-dabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).

Under Swachh Bharat Mission’s guideline, each city is advised to have waste compost or biogas plant at the vegetable market to dispose and recycle the waste.  Despite several stinkers of the civic body, they were installing machinery for compost plant or for bio-gas pant in the area. Hence, the civic body had stopped lifting garbage for a week.

It was the stink that forced to agree, authority at APMC to install a biogas plant.

“We asked them a couple of times to process the waste compost. All of them went unheard. They were not paying any heed to what we were requesting,” said Dinesh Desai, chairman of the health and solid waste committee.

“We further asked them to provide us with some portion of land so that we could initiate a biogas plant there for them. But for that also they were not agreeing. So to teach them a lesson, we had stopped lifting garbage,” added Desai.

It was only in last week that the authority agreed to install a plant there. “We didn’t lift the garbage for a week. They had piled up the stinking garbage on their premises. We bluntly said we will not provide you services until you follow the direction and advise of the civic body. it was only in last week that they agreed to start work for the plant,” said a senior health official.

The civic body has given a deadline of May 15, to start work on the plant. One of the board members said, “There was a difference of opinion among the board members regarding the work. Some of them were not agreeing to use premises but now solution will be brought soon.”

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The health and solid waste department of the civic body stopped lifting garbage from Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC), Jamalpur, as they were not cooperating with AMC.
Under Swachh Bharat Mission’s guideline, each city is supposed to have waste compost or biogas plant at the vegetable market to dispose and recycle the waste.