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Mumbai: After bio-waste plant, Deonar waste-to-energy plant also spells trouble
Updated On: 01 October, 2022 07:54 AM IST | Mumbai | Dipti Singh
Residents of Govandi, Deonar and Mankhurd find that waste-to-energy facility being built in locality will have incinerator, are worried of ill effects of smoke from it
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Work on at the Deonar dumping ground for the WTE plant. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
After years of petitions and protests to get the biomedical waste treatment plant moved from their backyard to avoid health hazards, residents of Govandi, Deonar and Mankhurd feel they are back to square one. They have learnt that the Deonar waste-to-energy (WTE) facility being built in their neighbourhood will have an incinerator, which they fear will emit smoke.
Before this, locals claim, they had little idea of what the WTE plant would be like. The residents` group Govandi New Sangam Welfare Society has been writing to Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) about it. The locals, who have been fighting for the shifting of SMS Envoclean, the city`s sole biomedical waste treatment plant in Deonar, got documents pertaining to the plans, various approvals and environment clearance granted to the WTE. They are now questioning authorities if the smoke emitted from the plant will spread pollution and pose health hazards.
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