Gurugram: A total of 26 Gurgaon residents, all members of various groups of residents, were detained by the police on Friday afternoon to protest outside Vyapar Sadan in Sector 14 where CM Manohar Lal Khattar put a foundation stone for proposed waste to-energy (WTE) Plant Bandhwari.
The population, most of whom women, claimed they were detained around 2:00 p.m., were taken to the West Vihar Women’s Police Station and released at 5pm after the CM program laying the proposed plant foundation and the new MCG office building at Vyapar Sadan concluded.
“Why are we treated like criminals? What we did was standing silent with a piece of paper that registered ‘no’ to a waste burning plant that spewed poison in Aravalis, the only green lung in the big cities of NCR,” Jyoti Raghavan said One resident.
“We only want to urge Haryana CM not to steal the future of our children by allowing the construction of a waste burning plant in the NCR critical water refill zone,” he said.
The population and environmental activists have raised their voices to the Wte factory proposed on the TPA Bandhwari website.
In August this year, public hearings were carried out to find out public opinion about increasing factory capacity from 15MW to 25MW.
All have rejected the proposal.
“WTE is a failed model in India.
Of the 11 factories established in India, most of them have been closed,” said Neelam Ahluwalia from the Aravalli Bachao group.
While a group of residents protested outside Vyapar Sadan, another group that included environmental lovers and villagers held Dharna in TPA Bandhwari at the TPA site on Friday morning.
“With the setting of waste factories to energy, our air will be more polluted,” said Praveen Kumar, a resident of Bandhwari Village.