Jalandhar: Now, dairy farmers oppose biogas plant

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 9

Even as pressure on the authorities against a bio-CNG plant at Bhogpur has been mounting, members of the Diary Association, Jalandhar, and the BKU (Doaba) on Friday announced to hold a protest against the proposed biogas plant in the fodder market of the Jamsher dairy complex.

Bhupinder Ghuman, president of the association, said, “All dairy farmers were shifted out of the city to the Jamsher dairy complex in 1998 with certain provisions, including a veterinary hospital, tubewells, roads and a site for fodder market. Now we are being told that this fodder market be shifted to a new site, about 1 km away, as the state government plans to set up a biogas plant here.”

Ghuman said, “We have our livestock and 10,000 workers stationed at the dairy complex. Their lives can be at risk because of this plant. Also, the alternative site being provided to us for fodder market is a congested passage. About 200 trolleys are daily being brought to the fodder complex and a congested site will be a huge problem for us”.

Members of the Arhtiya Association of Jamsher also came in their support.