Saturday, 17 December 2022 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) has received 23 garbage disposal related complaints through the email id released by Uttarakhand high court in October for locals to register garbage-related complaints. However, it is struggling to resolve all complaints within 48 hours as per HC order. The court said in a hearing of a PIL seeking a ban on single-use plastic on October 24 that no serious work is being done on the ground on solid waste disposal in the State and officials concerned are busy only in completing paperwork.
A bench of the high court of chief justice Vipin Sanghi and justice RC Khulbe issued an email id- [email protected] for locals to register garbage-related complaints with the order to municipal bodies to resolve these complaints within 48 hours. The Dehradun chief municipal health officer Dr Avinash Khanna said that the MCD received only two complaints in the first three weeks but the number of complainants increased with time. He said that the corporation has received a total of 23 complaints since the HC order.
As per the data provided by the corporation, the sanitation teams resolved 11 complaints within 24 hours, four complaints within 48 hours, three complaints in 72 hours, one each in 96 and 120 hours and the remaining were still being processed by the teams at the time of filing this news report. Most of these complaints have been received from areas in the city like Raipur Road, Sahastradhara Road, GMS Road, Kewal Vihar, Raipur and Jakhan. Khanna said that most of these complaints were regarding garbage accumulation in public areas that mostly contained single-use plastic. He said that the sanitation teams have been consistently working to resolve complaints within 48 hours as per HC order. Though some complaints have taken more time than the stipulated 48 hours due to certain factors, teams are working consistently to improve the situation, added Khanna.
