Despite ban, debris dots Nurpur road

Rajiv Mahajan

Nurpur, October 13

The road between the Housing Board Colony and Chinva has turned into a dumping site. Debris dots the 1.5-km stretch between the colony and Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI).

Despite the High Court imposing a ban on the dumping of debris along roads, the practice is rampant.

It is strange that the authorities are yet to wake up from their deep slumber and act. Water channels and forest areas too have not been spared.

People, carrying out construction work in Nurpur and surrounding areas, fill debris in cement bags and dump them along roads.

Heaps of waste material can be seen on the land opposite the ITI. Tractor-trailers load and unload material at night here.

Residents of the Housing Board Colony, Nurpur, want the authorities to check the dumping of solid waste

in their locality.

Locals Jagmel Rana, Anoop Kumar, Aneesh Kumar, Parveen Kumar and Usha Devi have urged the government to put up signboards along roads, asking locals not to litter the place.

Meanwhile, Nurpur SDM Surinder Thakur said he had directed the Municipal Council to identify a solid waste dumping site at a suitable place and display a warning signboard at the present location, where construction material was being dumped. He added that he would also write to the Pollution Control Board authorities.