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The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Zone has warned the Coimbatore Corporation to beryllium acceptable to divert freshly generated discarded to different legally approved sites if advancement successful clearing the Vellalore dumpyard remains unsatisfactory.
During a caller proceeding of the NGT’s suo motu lawsuit concerning the Vellalore dumpyard, which was initiated aft a occurrence broke retired astatine the tract successful April 2024, the bench, comprising Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana and Dr. Prashant Gargava, expressed interest implicit the continuing accumulation of waste.
The Tribunal noted that the contractor liable for processing the bequest discarded is falling down docket and observed that the Corporation had lone penalised the contractor without taking steps to expedite the process.
The NGT emphasised that the Commissioner indispensable guarantee readiness to displacement discarded connected a regular ground to forestall further delays and to beforehand decentralised discarded processing successful the city.
The NGT has besides mandated that the ongoing Phase II of bio-mining astatine Vellalore process 1,200 tonnes per day, with the capableness to beryllium enhanced to 1,800 tonnes per day, truthful that the task is completed by October 2026. The Corporation has been instructed to research renting further machinery to conscionable these targets.
The Tribunal further reiterated earlier directions from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), which see achieving 100% segregation of discarded astatine source, enhancing attraction capacity, ensuring due authorisation for each facilities, clearing Refuse-Derived Fuel and compost stored astatine the tract by sending them to cement industries and fertilizer units, and upgrading the leachate attraction works on with constructing garland drains to forestall groundwater contamination. The NGT stressed that caller discarded should not proceed to accumulate astatine Vellalore erstwhile compliance measures are successful place.
The Tribunal directed the Corporation to taxable month-wise advancement reports for September, October, and November 2025, on with a broad enactment program outlining wide timelines. The adjacent proceeding has been scheduled for January 12, 2026.
