Meerut News: Meerut Municipal Corporation is once again in the headlines. The fine imposed on the Municipal Corporation is being discussed everywhere. The fine is not a small one but is of five crore rupees. As soon as this fine was imposed on the Municipal Corporation, the officers started sweating. This fine of five crore rupees will have to be deposited within 15 days and this has also given sleepless nights to the Municipal Corporation officials. A fine of five crore rupees has been

imposed due to the negligence of the Meerut Municipal Corporation officials. The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board has taken action to impose a fine of five crore rupees on the Municipal Corporation. There are mountains of garbage in the city and the Municipal Corporation officials failed to dispose of them completely and this failure has proved costly for the Municipal Corporation. During the hearing in NGT, the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board presented the action report. The penalty of five crore rupees imposed on the Municipal Corporation is being discussed not only in Meerut but in the entire state.

RTI activist Lokesh Khurana had filed a petition

in Meerut. RTI activist Lokesh Khurana had filed a petition in NGT regarding illegal garbage mountains in Lohia Nagar and non-disposal of garbage emitted daily through scientific methods. The team formed on the instructions of NGT had inspected the temporary dumping ground, door to door garbage collection, garbage transfer station and the collection center of Nauchandi ground in Lohia Nagar. 

fine of five crores was imposed on the Municipal Corporation

Around 900 metric tons of garbage is emitted in Meerut, but the Municipal Corporation officials are not disposing of the garbage through scientific methods. The joint team had sent its report to NGT. After this, NGT had directed Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board and Central Pollution Control Board to properly assess the dumped garbage in Lohia Nagar and impose a fine, after which a fine of five crores was imposed on Meerut Municipal Corporation. 

It is also important to know the condition of Meerut city

About 900 metric tons of garbage is emitted in Meerut every day. There are more than 100 dangers in Meerut Municipal Corporation area. There are mountains of garbage in Lohianagar and more than 10 lakh metric tons of garbage is dumped there. More than two lakh metric tons of garbage is dumped in Mangatpuram. Meerut has a plant of 600 metric tons capacity through which garbage is disposed. The capacity is less and the emission of garbage is more, while old mountains of garbage are also there, in this regard, the conditions for disposal of this garbage are not visible even for many years and due to the mountains of garbage in Lohianagar, people living in the surrounding areas are troubled. 

The officer said, we will again put forward our side strongly

Due to the negligence of the officials of Meerut Municipal Corporation, a fine of Rs 5 crore has been imposed on the Municipal Corporation. When we talked to Municipal Commissioner Dr. Amit Pal Sharma about this, he told that we had sent the reply on time. This incident is from 2020. At that time neither the garbage plant was running nor the door-to-door vehicles were picking up garbage. Now these things have changed and we are going to have an agreement with NTPC as well. We will again put forward our side strongly and will make every effort to settle this fine.