Guwahati: The residents of the surrounding area at the disposal site located in the East Boragaon area in the city on Tuesday demanding that the government and Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) shift the dumping land to the earliest remote place because it pose a threat to the health of the people and the fragile ecology of the BEEL Deusor, located a few hundred meters away.
GMC has disposed of garbage throughout the city in almost 70 Bighas land in the Boraga Tol Boragaon since the last five months, after facing strong opposition from the residents of the Chandrapur area to dispose of waste at 40 hectares of the thermal power complex in Chandrapur in June.
GMC has shifted a disposal site from Boragon Barat to Chandrapur after the command of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) which was continued in 2019.
Meanwhile, Conservationist Pramod Kalita, who also held the Secretary of Paschim Guwahati Nagarik Sachetan Mancha, said the surrounding areas were dumping.
The land is a residential area and close to the cold of the BEEL, which was declared the Ramsar site in 2002.
“Surface water and groundwater pollution by fuel fuel from a dump have affected Beel’s flora and fauna,” he added.
He said seasonal seasonal and western winds flowed above the BEEL and dumping sites.
“The influence of toxic gases from sadness tends to have an impact on all areas of Khanapara to Palashbari.
The risk of spreading air disease cannot be ruled out if the dumping site does not shift from this location,” he added.
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Kalita further said that the selection of dumping sites in East Boragaon did not meet the specified parameters registered by the organization of the Public Health, Environment and Center Engineering and the Central Polution Control Board.