20230611 Fire at trenching ground, brought under control
India Jun 11 2023 “Other”
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Fire at trenching ground, brought under control
Updated: 2023-06-11
Indore: A fire broke out on Saturday morning in the trenching ground sent the senior IMC officials into a tizzy, who roped in fire tenders to douse the flames.
“It was not a big fire and was brought under control by afternoon using fire tenders while the smoke had also wiped out by evening,” IMC additional commissioner Siddhartha Jain said, adding that two high-mast cameras along with two guards are being arranged at the trenching ground to keep a track on such incidents and to also check, if someone is setting fire in the dry waste of leaves.
According to Jain, the fire was broken in a pile of green waste of dry leaves, but was controlled before spreading further. “IMC segregates and processes 100% dry, wet and e-waste at the processing plants,” he claimed.
The senior IMC officials, referring to decisions taken in MIC’s meeting held on Friday, said that permission has been given to set up a 100-ton capacity green waste processing plant that is being generated due to felling/trimming trees and falling leaves.
This is the third time when fire has broken out at trenching ground, where Asia’s biggest bio-CNG plant is situated.
This time, the fire was reported at around 800-meters from the bio-CNG plant towards Sanwadiya. The spot is adjacent to the forest department’s notified jungle while over a dozen residential colonies are situated around it. Locals made complaints of repeated fire incidents at the trenching ground, where the segregated waste of Indore is dumped for processing.
Janak Palta, who is director at Jimmy McGilligan Centre For Sustainable Development and resides in Sanwadiya village, shared a video of the fire at trenching ground on her Facebook account and termed it as ‘Indore’s biggest danger, poisonous polluted hell’.
“Is MP Pollution Board (officials) watching… This video is of Devguradia Trenching Ground at 9.21 in the morning. Don’t know what was burnt there, whose smoke is emanating for many hours” she wrote, adding that every few days, the smell of garbage, smoke, and flames report at the trenching ground.
With the post, she also tagged senior politicians, IMC, and administrative officials. TNN
Web Source: The Times of India