Sunday, December 03, 2017

Poop from the sky! NGT asks panel to analyze "waste"

Delhi's "poop-from-the-sky" problem is back again, and the NGT wants to know if it is human or bird excreta.

The issue had reached the tribunal last year, when a resident alleged his house was "splattered with large patches of excreta dumped by aircraft".

The NGT had issued guidelines to check the menace.

Planes generally store human waste in special tanks that are emptied once they land.

Sometimes, they add special chemicals to reduce their odor and break it down, converting them to "blue ice".

In January'16, an MP woman was injured after an alleged chunk of blue ice hit her.

Last year, Vasant Enclave resident Lieutenant General (retd) Satwant Singh Dahiya approached the NGT with a similar complaint, alleging flights were dumping their waste before landing at the Palam Airport.

Taking note of the matter, the NGT in December'16 ruled that "any aircraft (or) airlines" found to be dumping waste before landing would be fined Rs. 50,000 per incident.
It instructed DGCA to conduct surprise checks of aircrafts' waste tanks upon landing to ensure they hadn't been emptied.
In June this year, it rapped the DGCA for non-issuance of a relevant circular.
Now it has asked a special committee, which includes members from the DGCA, Central Avian Research Institute and Pollution Control Board, to analyze such waste samples from near the Delhi Airport and determine if they are human or bird poop.
03/12/17 Gogona Saikia/NewsBytes
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