Suvali villagers oppose Surat Municipal Corporation transfer to shift waste dumping website

Villagers of Suvali on Friday handed over a memorandum to the Surat district collector opposing the Surat Municipal Corporation’s resolution to shift the stable waste dumping website from Khajod to Suvali.
The civic physique determined to shift the waste dumping website got here because the Diamond Research and Mercantile (DREAM) City and Surat Diamond Bourse (SDM) challenge is on the verge of completion at Khajod village and the dumping website is reverse to the DREAM City.
The villagers, after studying concerning the resolution, referred to as a gathering of residents and sarpanches of neighbouring villages.
On Friday, Babubhai Ahir, sarpanch of Suvali, together with sarpanches of neighbouring villages, handed over memorandum to District Collector Ayush Oak.
In the memorandum, the villagers alleged final yr additionally the SMC had additionally deliberate to shift the positioning to their village however the villagers had opposed.

Again SMC had began actions of placing request to state authorities to get authorities land of fifty hecatres for dumping stable waste and 25 hectares for establishing plant to transform stable waste to urea at Suvali village.”
The memorandum added, “The land selected by SMC have schools, residential area, and also agricultural land… The main occupation of the people of Suvali village is fishing, agriculture and animal husbandry, and if the dumping site comes up at Suvali village, it would be difficult for survival. With such bad odour, people cannot work in the agricultural fields..”

Suvali village has a well-known seaside which is being developed by the state authorities.
Ahir advised The Indian Express, “Our village falls in the seacoast and the state government has planned to develop beach by spending crores of rupees. People from Suvali and nearby villages are opposing the project.”