Regarding the protest of the locals residents at Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Control Pollution Board (UEPPCB) against the solid waste management and recycling plant in Sheeshambada area, the Dehradun municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey has rejected all the allegations of protestors saying that the protestors are illegal occupants in the area.
According to municipal commissioner, “The solid waste management and recycling plant is established on the land of Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) where people started living illegally. The same kind of protest was done by the locals a few years back too to revoke the plant.
We have taken consent to establish and operate the waste management plant from UEPPCB and no authority has the right to shut it off apart from National Green Tribunal, High Court and Supreme Court.”
On being asked about improper treatment of leachate at the plant, he said, “The plant is under construction for the treatment of leachate and by January 31, it will be functional too.”