Kohima, August 1 (MExN): Dapfhütsumia Youth Organization (DYO) today alleged negligence in the solid waste management project at Lirie, Kohima and demanded that the community land should be returned if the project cannot function according to its specification.
In a letter to the Director, Urban Development, Nagaland, the youth organization questioned whether the commissioning of the project was only for publicity. The solid waste management was commissioned by February 2016, said the letter appended by DYO President, Er. Neisavotuo Sachü and General Secretary, Kereivilie Kire.
The fact finding team of DYO, according to the letter, found that “the project piles with waste dumping and never the recycling.”
It further highlighted that the D. Khel community and the surrounding villages had very bad experiences when waste dumping was randomly scattered in the jurisdiction of D. Khel, Kohima by the municipal of Kohima.
The cultivators/farmers and the surrounding villages, it added, experienced the most “repulsive” environmental hazards during D. Khel dumping episode and the present location at Lirie, Kohima for solid waste management “is nearing hazards.” The DYO stated that all the surroundings areas of the waste management site are polluted. “The locality and surrounding villages are at threat with various negative impacts,” it stated, adding “the spread of contaminated viruses are very much in near future”
Based on the above “genuine findings,” DYO asserted that if the project is an illusion rather than the dreamed management, “we shall not allow our primed land to be the hazardous dumping land where we shall never remain mere spectator.”
The letter further stated that if at all the project cannot function according to the specification then the community land should be returned. “The community shall not entertain any government land allotment to any individual or private parties in and around the area except to the land owner,” it added.
