Diwali and Chhath are near. People of Barharwa Nagar Panchayat area of the district are busy cleaning their houses. Every day garbage is coming out of people’s houses and people are throwing their household garbage in the dustbins installed in their locality and at some identified places, but this garbage is collected by the cleaning staff of Nagar Panchayat from different wards and is again dumped in Barharwa-Farakka. Deposit near NH-80 High School turn. For the last 5 years, garbage is being thrown on the roadside, where there is a huge pile of garbage and when people pass through the road, they get troubled by the foul smell. Nagar Panchayat Office Barharwa has not yet identified any land for dumping garbage. When the garbage on the roadside becomes too high, it is pushed back with a JCB. The sanitation workers roam around the city cleaning the roads and streets and they pick up the garbage and throw it on the side of NH-80. Many times the garbage was even burnt, due to which a lot of poisonous smoke was released. When local villagers complained to the Nagar Panchayat office, the garbage fire was extinguished.
The city is not getting land to dump garbage.
Nagar Panchayat is searching for land to dump garbage in Barharwa Nagar Panchayat area. For this, a letter has been sent by the Nagar Panchayat Office to Barharwa Circle and Additional Collector, but according to the information given so far by the Circle Office, there is no government land anywhere around Barharwa Nagar. Any correspondence for providing land to the city will be done from the Collectorate Office only, only then the land will be marked. If Nagar Panchayat Barharwa does not get government land, then according to the provision, Nagar Panchayat can also purchase raiyat land.
What do the executive officers say?
Smita Kiran, executive officer in-charge of Sahibganj district Nagar Panchayat office, Barharwa, said that a letter has been written to Barharwa circle and Additional Collector office to identify the site for dumping garbage, but the land has not been received yet. As soon as we get land, we will try to reduce garbage by installing decompose machines there.