Aafrin Kidwai 
The National Green Tribunal has directed the West Bengal Environment Department, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, New Town Kolkata Development Authority and Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority to file a status report on the action plan to prevent spillage from dumping sites near Mollar Bheri into the water bodies of East Kolkata Wetlands. While BMC has files and affidavit on the status none of the others have complied with the directions, the order reads.
The Statesman reports that in November 2019, the tribunal directed the BMC to deposit a performance guarantee to the Central Pollution Control Board and furnish an action plan to address the matter. The NGT had also expressed its dissatisfaction over BMC for its plans of processing waste in decentralised manner by installing organic waste converters and biomethanation apart from establishing a centralised processing unit on a 20 acre land.
The NGT had asked the BMC to follow the Indore Model or Pirana Model (Ahmedabad) for waste management. A Monitoring Committee had been constituted by the state government to deal with solid waste management.
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