HYC submits memorandum

FROM A REPORTER

SHILLONG, May 11: Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC) Donbok Kharlyngdoh  President of Mawlai circle on Monday submitted a memorandum to Ampareen  Lyngdoh Minister of Urban Affairs Department demanding that all  unwanted and illegal disposal of expired medicine, corpses etc at  Marten should be stopped.

Addressing newsmen on Monday, D Kharlyngdoh said, “We came here to remind the Minister of Urban Affairs Ampareen Lyngdoh that on April 11  during our spot inspection along with members of the Dorbar Shnong of  Mawlai Nongkwar found that the Municipal Authority is breaking its own  norms and rules as prescribed in the Bye-Laws and other legislation of  the Country.”

He also informed that during the spot inspection they found that the  incinerator at Marten has not been functioning for the last 6 to 7  months posing a lot of threat to the local residents. It was also found  that the Marten was grossly unequipped with the requirements needed.  there is no Effluent/sewage treatment plan for discharge of effluent  wastes but are discharged directly in an open air that will polluted  the Wah Jri, stream nearby Lynti Rim, Mawlai Nongkwar area, the  landfill area is unscientific and pose a threat for the workers as well  as passersby.

“Many local residents near the Marten have started complaining over  such act of disposing expired medicine, medical waste and the cremation  of unclaimed bodies in the Marten which is highly unscientific,” said  Kharlyngdoh adding “the authority concern did not comply with the norms  of the Municipal Bye-Laws and other Legislations of the Country.”

Expressing concern Kharlyngdoh said, “By burning the medical waste in  the open the environment and the air we breathe can become toxic and  this will create more health problems for the people in the locality of  also daily passerby and tourist as it is the main route to and from  Shillong City.”

Kharlyngdoh also demanded that the concerned authority should speed up  the preparations of a proper landfill with efficiently designed  protective measure against pollution and also to have a decent and  humane method of cremating the unclaimed dead bodies that are being  brought from several hospitals and buried at Marten.

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