Aafrin Kidwai 
A proposal to create a 30-acre dumpsite in Faridabad’s Pali Mohbtabad village to divert fresh waste away from the Bandhwari landfill, has been scrapped by the municipal corporations of Gurugram and Faridabad.
The Hindustan Times reports that the site in question is a ‘forest’ land and was once among the largest stone mining sites in India, notified under the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA), 1900. This was revealed in an affidavit submitted by the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) last month, detailing its progress on remediation of the Bandhwari landfill.
There have also been protests against this in 2015, when the site was first considered for use as a dump yard. Gurugram and Faridabad will now have to strengthen its decentralised waste segregation systems to reduce the pressure on Bandhwari.
Picture Credit: D’Arcy Norman, Jardim Gramacho, CC BY 2.0
