Bavdhan Waste Segregation and Transition Center : State Govt Approves PMC’s Proposal
By: Pune Pulse
August 18, 2023
Pune: The Maharashtra government has suspended the resolution passed by the elected representatives of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and has directed the civic body to set up a new waste segregation and transition centre at Bavdhan.
Speaking to Pune Pulse, Asha Raut, PMC Solid Waste Management Chief said, “The state government has given the PMC permission to go ahead with the construction of the waste segregation centre in Bavdhan. Accordingly, planning, formalities, tender and all other procedures will be done.”
As per information, for the past 25 years, the civic body has been dumping Bavdhan waste in Kothrud before transfer to Uruli Devachi and Phursungi.
The Pune metro required the Kothrud plot for the construction of their station and depot. The plot was transferred to Pune metro in 2018. However, a portion of the land was still in use for a waste segregation centre. The waste collected from Warje and Kothrud offices is stored at the centre. After segregation, the waste is sent to the processing plants.
In Survey No 64, Bavdhan, the civic administration had proposed to relocate a waste segregation centre on its land in order to ensure that waste disposal would not be affected due to the absence of a proper waste segregation centre. The civic administration had started the work for the project but suspended it after the local residents objected and a resolution was passed by the local elected representatives against the project in 2021. This prompted the municipal commissioner to request the state government to withdraw the resolution of the development of a new waste segregation centre for Bavdhan.
It is worth noting that while a part of the current state government is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former BJP corporator Dilip Vede Patil had opposed the civic administration’s proposal to set up a modern waste segregation centre at Survey no 64, Bavdhan, citing the opposition of local residents. He had challenged the proposal before the civic general body, citing the objections of local residents to set up a waste segregation centre at Bavdhan, to which the resolution was passed.
Even though his party is currently in power in Maharashtra, Patil said that he will take up the matter with his party’s leaders again. The party has also filed a petition before the Bombay High Court and will continue the fight even if it means appealing to the supreme court.
