GURUGRAM: Municipal Corporation of Gurugram(MCG) on Monday issued orders in opposition to dumping of sewage waste within the open. According to the corporation’s order, any tanker or vehicle found dumping sewage waste in public spaces and empty plots can be challaned Rs 5,000 below Section 292 (2) Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994.
MCG commissioner Yashpal Yadav said that many instances of sewage dumping within the open had come to his understand and the order was once handed as the observe was once damaging to town’s surroundings. Yadav has appointed officers in every of the 4 zones within the town to identify defaulters.
“The assistant nodal officer concerned will identify spaces below MCG jurisdiction the place sewage waste is being disposed of. They will check each and every tanker of their respective spaces and after delivering a duplicate of the order, issue challans price Rs 5,000 to them,” said the commissioner.
He added that the officers would additionally notice down details such as tanker quantity, names of owner and motive force, their cell numbers and addresses, together with details of the place the sewage waste at first got here from.
According to the commissioner, “major originators” have at hand over sewage waste to empanelled agencies best or can be fined with Rs 5,000 on first detection and 20% greater than final time for next detections as in keeping with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) laws.
He said that the fines accumulated would be kept in a separate account — environmental compensation fund — and utilised for recovery and restitution paintings to test environmental harm.
Last 12 months, MCG had empanelled two agencies and all unauthorised colonies missing sewage pipelines were advised to eliminate sewage waste through them. The corporation had additionally mounted the charges on this regard. The waste is then intended to be carried to government-run sewage remedy plants (STPs).
“In case of repeated offence, an FIR can be registered in opposition to the defaulter below Section 188, 269, 270, 277, 278, 290, 336 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and below Section 15(1) & (2) of Environment (Protection) Act, 1986,” added Yadav.
MCG commissioner Yashpal Yadav said that many instances of sewage dumping within the open had come to his understand and the order was once handed as the observe was once damaging to town’s surroundings. Yadav has appointed officers in every of the 4 zones within the town to identify defaulters.
“The assistant nodal officer concerned will identify spaces below MCG jurisdiction the place sewage waste is being disposed of. They will check each and every tanker of their respective spaces and after delivering a duplicate of the order, issue challans price Rs 5,000 to them,” said the commissioner.
He added that the officers would additionally notice down details such as tanker quantity, names of owner and motive force, their cell numbers and addresses, together with details of the place the sewage waste at first got here from.
According to the commissioner, “major originators” have at hand over sewage waste to empanelled agencies best or can be fined with Rs 5,000 on first detection and 20% greater than final time for next detections as in keeping with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) laws.
He said that the fines accumulated would be kept in a separate account — environmental compensation fund — and utilised for recovery and restitution paintings to test environmental harm.
Last 12 months, MCG had empanelled two agencies and all unauthorised colonies missing sewage pipelines were advised to eliminate sewage waste through them. The corporation had additionally mounted the charges on this regard. The waste is then intended to be carried to government-run sewage remedy plants (STPs).
“In case of repeated offence, an FIR can be registered in opposition to the defaulter below Section 188, 269, 270, 277, 278, 290, 336 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and below Section 15(1) & (2) of Environment (Protection) Act, 1986,” added Yadav.
Pay fine if you dump sewage in public areas, tankers told
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