14 days on, Jaypee restarts garbage plant

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 25

Finally, after a gap of 14 days, the Jaypee group today restarted the garbage processing plant at Dadu Majra.

It had stopped the plant on July 11 over the tipping charges issue. The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation had moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the Jaypee decision.

On July 14, the Shimla Bench of the NGT had directed the Jaypee group to start the garbage processing plant at Dadu Majra by July 27.

Confirming the development, MC Joint Commissioner Rajiv Gupta said the company started the plant this morning.

Sources said around 300 tonnes of garbage was processed at the plant today.

Earlier, as the company had stopped processing garbage, the MC was directly dumping around 250 to 300 tonnes of garbage daily at the dumping ground without processing.