More than 40 years after the bhopal gas tragedy, the process of relocating the toe bhopal’s union carbide factory began on January 1, who 12 containers carrying 337 metric tonnes of hazardous Waste Forvate. Disposal Plant in Pithampur Run by the first re -sustainability.

This came after the madhya pradesh high court on December 3 set a four-week deadline for the authorities to dispose of the waste. On December 5, The HC pulled up the state government over the lack of progress, observing that the authorities were “Still in a state of inartia despite 40 years” Have gone by.

While 30 tonnes of waste had been incinerated until march 13, the process of burning the rest at the disposal plant began around 7:45 pm on May 5 and ended on the intervening night of june 29-30 at 1 am, officials said.

As per protocol, the ash and other residue left after burning the waste was safly packed in sacks and stored in a leak-proof shed at the plant.

Special Landfill Cells were constructed to bury the residue in the ground, and this work is expected to be completed by November. “The Entire Disposal was carried out as per established safety standards. The emission of different bases and parties from the pithampur plant was monitored on a real-time basis by an online mechanism, anand ale the ema. Found to be without the standard limits, “Said a State Pollution Control Board Officer.

Protests against the disposal of toxic waste had broken out in pithampur at the beginning of this year, with two men also attempting to self-immolate. The Indo District Officials had assured locals in multiple meetings about the safety standards and the need to carry out the display due to court order.

“So far, we have not received any adverter complaints. We will continue monitoring the site as we dispose of the remaining residue in the landfill site,” Said an official.

Shrinivas Dwivedi, Regional Director of the Madhya Pradesh Control Board, Told the Indian Express that was wasted at the rate of 270 kg/Hour from 5 on 5 on 5 on a break of tawt. A Cleaning Process for the incinerator.

“About 19 Metric Tonnes of Waste in the form of Soil and Sundry Materials Such as bags is left, and that, and too, would be incinerated by July 3,” Dwivedi Told The Indian Express.

Between the end of the trial run and may 5, MPPCB installed a Small Machine to Blend and Mix The Waste With Reagents, Installed A Mercury Emissions Sensor, and Twenty Continue Air Quality Monitoring Systems. Said.

In the high court

The Madhya Predesh Government Also submitted a status report on the incineration to the jabalpur bench of the high court, headed by justice atul sreedharan. During the court hearing on Monday, the bench asked how the ash would be disposed of, to which state government council replied that plan was to store it in a landfill. The issue of ash disposal, howver, would be deliberated in the next hearing on July 31.

Justice sreedharan also asked the hearing where the residual ash can be stored away from human habitation, as concurns were raised by intervens of intervens. “If the ash is toxic, it will be so in the landfill as well,” Justice Sreedharan noted. The bench said that in the next hearing, it will hear Experts from the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Central Pollution Control Board, and MPCB Regarding The Procedure To Followed With To Storm. The residual ash.

Intervenors in the case told the bench that locals staying around the plant has complained of health impacts. To this, the bench said that it would form a medical board to look into these concerns, and if the claims are not genuine, the petitioners will be liable for Providing False Information To The Court.

Bhopal-based rachna dhingra of the bhopal group for information and action, one of the petitioners in the case, submitted to the court that 337 metric tonnes incinerations of the toxics of the toxics. Defunct Bhopal Factory.

She pleaded for a comprehensive study on the contamination at the site, and also raised concerns regerns regerns regerns alleged mercury leakage at Pithampur During trial Runs, basically of the report of the export of the indian institute. Technology-Hyderabad. The bench sought supporting evident to back the claim.