Gurgaon: Nearly two weeks after MCG rolled out its construction and demolition (C&D) waste management portal and notified fresh guidelines for regulating the disposal of construction debris, the city continues to grapple with indiscriminate dumping of C&D waste and garbage.On Golf Course Extension Road and Rajesh Pilot Road, substantial heaps of construction debris were found dumped along the side.An HSVP land parcel near Ghata on Rajesh Pilot Road has effectively turned into an unauthorised dumping site. The parcel, located immediately behind several CGHS societies, is enclosed by a precast fabricated wall, but the barrier has done little to stop illegal disposal.Residents staged a protest on Sept 13 along Golf Course Extension Road over the issue, following which MCG cleared the waste. However, fresh dumping was observed at the same stretch on Thursday. The situation points to a gap in the implementation and enforcement of the civic body’s new waste-management framework.On Sept 11, during the House meeting, MCG announced that it had slashed the doorstep collection rate for small-scale and non-bulk C&D waste producers, including residents, to Rs 50 per tonne, and launched a dedicated portal for requesting pickups.Over the last year, 7.9 lakh metric tonnes of C&D waste was dumped at Basai plant. Of this, 3.9 lakh MT came from bulk C&D waste producers and the remaining 4 lakh MT from non-bulk producers.“Police patrolling must enforce a ban on fresh dumping and clear signage should be installed so everyone knows where the waste is to be taken. Without the full system in place, the problem will continue. We still do not have the new plant and Basai cannot be burdened with a large load of legacy C&D waste that it cannot take any more of,” said Gauri Sarin, convener of citizen movements Making Model Gurgaon and Gurgaon Residents Against Pollution.Sudakshina Laha, a resident of Sushant Lok-3 and an IT professional who commutes through the Extension road daily, said: “The recurrence of dumping despite periodic clearance points to a classic ‘clear-and-forget’ approach where waste is removed after public complaints or protests but preventive enforcement remains inadequate. Without regular surveillance, identification of repeat offenders, penalties and effective tracking of C&D waste from generation to authorised disposal, such clean-up exercises risk becoming merely cosmetic interventions.”“We recently caught MCG-outsourced sanitation workers dumping garbage at the Sushant Lok 2 and 3 junction. Since we had also videographed the incident, we informed MCG and they transferred those workers to some other area,” Laha added.“We will enhance enforcement in collaboration with GMDA and remove this C&D waste dumped along these roads,” MCG commissioner Pradeep Dahiya said.
