Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 24

A group of activists on Thursday morning opposed the MC’s move to set up a garbage compactor/dump at Bhai Chattar Singh Park here. The work regarding the project was to be started at the site today.

Notably, the park was named in the memory of late cadet Chattar Singh Dhadhli, who breathed his last on January 2, 1954. A younger brother of Bhai Chattar Singh, Bhawanjeet Singh, said today that no garbage compactor or dump should be set up at the park.

Activist Gurpal Singh Grewal raised questions that why the civic body chose the park to set up a garbage dump.

He said the park’s land should not be used for a garbage dump or compactor and no tree should be axed for the dump site.

MC and police officials, who reached the site, asked Grewal to check waste compactors in the city. Meanwhile, the work was stalled at the park.

The MC officials claimed that the waste compactor would not create any nuisance at the park and cleanliness would be ensured. They said the NGT had allowed the MC to set up a compactor at the park.

Meanwhile, Jaskirat Singh of the Narao Manch Punjab said: “We want to make an appeal to the Chief Minister and the NGT that no garbage compactor should be set up at the park that was named in the memory of the late cadet. We request the authorities to find an alternative site to set up the compactor.”