Clean-up drive near Bhubaneswar airport

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation today launched a cleaning exercise near the Biju Patnaik Airport area beginning with a huge dumping site near a culvert on the natural drainage channel No. 8.
The place is 150 metres from the airport boundary. The dustbin in which the local fish and meat vendors used to dump wastes had been attracting carnivorous birds such as, kites.
The drive commenced with an excavator and a tipper of the corporation. The work continued from 9am to 10.30am and the workers also fished out the debris which had been blocking flow of the drain up to Pokhariput.
“Yesterday while scanning the area around the airport, we came across this place where we saw hordes of street dogs and birds. The cleaning drive was immediately ordered and the city health officer was asked to supervise it. Nearly two tonnes of garbage were collected,” said commissioner Vishal Kumar Dev.
The commissioner said the corporation market supervisors had been asked to warn the vendors against dumping waste at the site. Moreover, the chief engineer (roads) of the public works department (PWD) has been requested to construct a barricade at the place to prevent such dumping.
27/06/11 Bibhuti Barik/The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Jun 2011