Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Mar 18: The People of Samba staged a protest demonstration here, today against the Pollution Control Department and SIDCO regarding the Solid Waste Treatment Plant which is being taken in second phase by SIDCO Samba.
The protestors assembled outside the SIDCO Office in Phase One, Samba and raised slogans against the Department. They were demanding that the Solid Waste Treatment Plant would not be allowed in Samba because the waste material of the four districts including Udhampur, Jammu, Kathua and Samba dumped in plant will create environmental hazards.
The protestors said it will lead to many problems of local people, and this dirty stench will spread diseases. The local people said that the plant should be planted in the forest area far away from the district Samba, so that the people should be kept away from the miseries and problems caused by this plant.
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Sarpanch, Lablu Sambyal, said that Samba’s water has already become contaminated due to the fact that with the introduction of a chemical-based factory in Samba, some villages have not been able to harvest the crop and now, after the Solid Waste Treatment Plant, the solid waste of all factories will be dumped here which will lead to health hazards.
Advocate, Subhash Sambyal said that about six years ago, this plant was being planted in Samba, which local people had resisted.
Among others who participated in the protest included, Sarpanch Lablu Sambyal, former Minister and ex MLA Samba, Yashpal Kundal, advocate Subhash Singh, Sarpanch Vinod Kumar and the members of the People’s Forum for Human Value.
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