The BMC had sought permission for it to be allowed to dump garbage at Mulund and Deonar claiming that the new sites provided for by the state at Airoli and Taloja are yet to be operational and, until then, they should be allowed access to the former two sites.
Observing that the state government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have not taken any serious steps to ensure the proper management and disposal of solid waste, and that, yet, the court is bound to grant an extension up to June 2017 considering the serious nature of the issue, the Bombay High Court on Friday allowed the BMC to operate the Deonar and Mulund dumping grounds, which don't comply with management of solid waste (MSW) rules.
A division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice CV Bhadang has also proposed that a committee be formed under the chairmanship of a retired civil servant, an order for which will be passed on Monday. The committee will monitor the setting up of waste management facilities at the dumping sites and ensure that solid waste is scientifically treated.
The BMC had sought permission for it to be allowed to dump garbage at Mulund and Deonar claiming that the new sites provided for by the state at Airoli and Taloja are yet to be operational and, until then, they should be allowed access to the former two sites.
On an average, 9,000 metric tonnes of garbage is generated in Mumbai on a daily basis. The court, after going through the affidavits filed by the state and the corporation, noted that there is absolutely no possibility of compliance of MSW rules by the year 2019 to scientifically treat garbage, which by then could have gone up to 15,000 metric tonnes a day, due to the ongoing construction activities in the city. The court also suggested to the state government that it would have to modify development control rules to allow the setting up of plants at the ward level for the disposal of bio-degradable waste.
The Deonar dumping ground, which started in 1927, and the one at Mulund, started in 1967, have long exceeded their dumping limits. The civic body was to have complied with the MSW rules, which were formulated in the year 2000, by December 2013. But while the scientific treatment of waste is carried out only at the Kanjurmarg dumping ground, the other two dumping sites don't have this facility.
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