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Environmentalists, wildlife activists, and locals person sought contiguous involution by the Union Environment Ministry into the recurring amerciable discharge of highly toxic, untreated leachate into the Aravalis from the Bandhwari landfill tract connected the Gurugram-Faridabad road, causing a wellness hazard to residents and wildlife.
In a missive to Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, wildlife activistic Vaishali Rana said that contempt continuous complaints, orders, and monitoring by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), leachate continued to beryllium discharged from the Bandhwari landfill into the surrounding Aravali wood and up to the outskirts of the colony Bandhwari for astir 3 years.
The wildlife activist, pursuing the substance successful the NGT since 2015, said successful the missive that she was “writing successful desperation and with the past anticipation of getting immoderate alleviation from an biology and quality situation that has been unfolding for astir a decennary successful the Aravali”.
Attaching the latest videos and pictures, she claimed that the landfill laic hardly a kilometre uphill from the village, and therefore, determination was a continuous travel of leachate downhill straight towards the colony and its surroundings.
“The situation is not lone humanitarian but ecological – the Aravali wood and its wildlife are being severely impacted. Multiple geo-stamped photographs and videos person been submitted to the NGT implicit the years showing leachate pooling successful wood depressions and contaminating wildlife h2o holes,” she said, blaming the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) for the situation.
Ms. Rana alleged that the MCG claimed determination was a garland drain astir the landfill to forestall leachate from flowing into the Aravalis, but determination was none.
She said the substance had been repeatedly brought to the announcement of the Chief Wildlife Warden, Panchkula, and was besides pending earlier the Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC) for the past 2 years, but determination had been nary betterment connected the ground. The HHRC has sought a study from the Chief Secretary successful this connection, but determination has been nary effect connected the 2 erstwhile hearings. The adjacent proceeding is connected November 25.
She demanded that the country of the landfill tract beryllium demarcated by the wood department, alleging that the MCG had encroached upon astir 20 acre of the wood onshore surrounding the site.
HHRC subordinate Deep Bhatia told The Hindu that the leachate discharge was a sedate substance concerning humanity and the ecology, and helium had visited the tract successful 2023, taking cognisance of media reports. He added that the occupation was caused by the government’s hold successful tackling the bequest discarded astatine the tract and ensuring its regular processing. Mr. Bhatia said the authorities should instrumentality the substance earnestly and code the inordinate hold successful dealing with it.
The Hindu tried reaching retired to MCG commissioner Pradeep Dahiya but determination was nary response.
