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Ramesh apologises for dumping of Carbide waste | Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam
Ramesh has sought an apology from the people of Madhya Pradesh's Pithampur village, admitting that the lethal waste was secretly smuggled out during the night hours
from the Carbide factory and dumped in the area. Ramesh, however, assured the
people that this would not be repeated, asserting that there should be transparency
in the transferring of garbage. "I want to delink the union carbide issue from
the normal issue of the running of this facility. Many people recognized that
such a facility is required. But most people worried that the 400 tonnes or so
from Bhopal will come here and will be incinerated here and it will have adverse
consequences for people," said Ramesh during his visit to the village to check
the safety angle in the TSD (treatment, storage and disposal) incinerator facility.
"That issue I want to delink. And I have reassured the people that whatever we
do at Pithampur will be done in a transparent and consultative manner and we will
not do anything unilaterally," he added. Ramesh further said he was not the Minister
of State for Environment and Forests at that time. "No hasty decision would be
made for the disposal of the lethal waste. Technical examination of reports about
ground water being contaminated would be carried out, and NGOs will be consulted
before the safe disposal," said Ramesh. Regarding the waste contaminating the
ground water, he said while the State Government will carry out the disposal work,
the Central Government would fund it. The Central Government transferred 40 tonnes
of trash from Bhopal to Pithampur village in 2008. |
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