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Residents of Maharashtra's Chauda Gaav battle the ills of a dumping ground
Updated On: 15 October, 2023 08:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Gautam S Mengle
As residents of a fourteen-village cluster in Thane district fight against a temporary dumping ground, mid-day finds anger fuelled by years of neglect
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The setting up of a temporary dumping ground by the Thane Municipal Corporation, located on a hill in the Chauda Gaav area, led to dirty water flowing down into the villagers’ homes this monsoon. Pics/Satej Shinde
We smell it long before we see it. The dumping ground in Chauda Gaav, Maharashtra, a cluster of 14 villages, is sprawled over several acres of a hill just off the cacophonous Shil Phata junction, Thane. On our approach, we pass several trucks on their way back after dumping their cargo, and the two men accompanying us throw murderous glares at each of them.
“It was supposed to be for just a year,” says Laxman Patil, president of the Chauda Gaav Sarvapakshiya Vikas Samiti, a committee comprising residents of the villages from across political parties. Patil himself is an office bearer with the local BJP office. “In February, the Thane Municipal Corporation announced that it would be dumping its waste on a patch of land on the hill. We immediately opposed it but were told that it was a temporary arrangement for a year. The first truck, however, didn’t arrive till April.”
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