Dhapa used to be famous for Dumping ground but with recent years of development of ITC Sonar Bangla, 5 Stars Hotel & Silver Spring in this area, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to close down a part of the Dhapa Dumping ground by April 2010 for remediation. Around 8.5 hectares of the 35-hectare Dhapa Dumping ground will be closed, civic officials said.
“The present dumping ground at Dhapa has become saturated and we will be closing it down soon. We have already identified an alternate site beside the main dumping ground and will start using it soon,” mayor Mr Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya said.
Civic officials pointed out that at present garbage is dumped in two mounts at the Dhapa Dumping Ground. At least 340 garbage dumpers carrying over 3,300 metric tonnes of solid waste is dumped at Dhapa everyday. This has created immense pressure on the city’s only dumping ground. Compounding the problem is the fact that an alternate dumping ground in Cossipore belonging to the Baranagar Municipality is no longer available to KMC since the year 2000.
Moreover, discharge of methane gas and has also been considered as a major problem in the dumping ground. As a result, there was an immediate need for remediation, officials said. Plans for remediation of the dumping grounds has been sanctioned under a project funded jointly by the Central Government and the World Bank.
The remediation of the Dhapa Dumping grounds has been sanctioned as a part of a Rs 110 crore project. Under the project, eight dumping grounds of Hooghly and one of Kolkata will be remediated.
The state environment department will execute the project, civic officials said. As per initial terms, the World Bank will provide 80 per cent of the funds while the Centre will fund the remaining 20 per cent. Meanwhile, the civic body has already acquired 105 cottahs of land from the farmers resettled in the area at a cost of over Rs 15 crore. The new land acquired from the farmers will be used for dumping solid waste accumulated from different parts of the city, civic officials said. ; SNS
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