Fire out in Brahmapuram plant, however smoke but to clear on blame

By Express News Service

KOCHI: The hearth on the Brahmapuram waste remedy plant that left Kochi gasping for days was near being introduced below management by Sunday night.  However, just like the smoke that saved billowing from the smouldering heaps, a query hangs within the air: Who is accountable for the incident?

On Sunday, a high-level assembly was attended by three ministers on the collectorate took inventory of the scenario.  Short-term and long-term options to equip the administration to take care of such fires in future have been instructed. 

However, fixing accountability for the present disaster was not on agenda. After the assembly, P Rajeeve, the minister accountable for Ernakulam district, informed reporters the hearth can be absolutely contained by night. 

“Officials are using two large dewatering pumpsets to pump water from Kadambrayar river to the site of the fire at Brahmapuram. The water is being pumped after cleaning the river using a floating JCB, and 32 fire engines are being used to douse the flames.Additional portable pumps will be deployed,” Rajeeve stated. 

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Rajeeve stated if there are points with the water from the Kadambrayar, water from the lake of FACT, a public sector enterprise close by, will probably be used. On their half, the police and the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) have swung into motion. The police registered a case and launched a probe into the hearth. City police commissioner Okay Sethu Raman, requested by the chief secretary to submit a report on the circumstances that led to the hearth, visited the Brahmapuram dumpyard.

Meanwhile, KSPCB has determined to take steps to prosecute Kochi company. It has already slapped a show-cause discover on the civic physique, asking it to pay `1.8 crore as penalty for not adhering to Solid Waste Management Rules. “KSPCB decided to prosecute the corporation as merely imposing a penalty was deemed insufficient to get things done. The civic body has failed to follow solid waste disposal rules, which is why such incidents have been reported frequently at Brahmapuram,” stated Baburajan P Okay, chief environmental engineer, KSPCB-Ernakulam.

Still no phrase on who ought to take the accountability for the hazard. Sridhar R, former programme director of Thanal, an NGO, stated Kerala can’t maintain reiterating its numero uno standing amongst states with such miserably managed city waste in Kochi. Cities like Thiruvananthapuram and Alappuzha have eradicated their dumping yards or arrange centralised landfills, and are on the trail to a zero-waste impressed decentralised system, because of the efforts of Thanal, Suchitwa Mission and Harita Karma Sena, and the management of former Thiruvananthapuram mayor V Okay Prasanth former finance minister T M Thomas Isaac and former Thiruvananthapuram collector Okay Vasuki, he stated in a tweet, including the next.

“In Kochi, all we hear is filthy political exchange of blame.” S Gopakumar, an architect and president of Better Kochi Response Group (BKRG), stated he had written to the chief secretary on February 15, bringing to his consideration the worsening waste administration disaster within the district. “Without the involvement of public and public institutions, such as chambers of commerce, tourism, BKRG, and others, the issue cannot be tackled,” he stated, including that regardless of indicators {that a} harmful scenario was forming none took the initiative to deal with it. “It’s a mess. Fire tenders could not enter the area as there was no proper road access,” he stated.

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Road to be made accessible

Once the continued hearth situation is resolved, Kochi company will make the street to Brahmapuram waste plant extra accessible as early as doable, Rajeeve stated. “A temporary solution will be found to resume waste collection that was stalled for the past three to four days. The district collector will take necessary steps based on the corporation’s recommendations,” he stated.

KOCHI: The hearth on the Brahmapuram waste remedy plant that left Kochi gasping for days was near being introduced below management by Sunday night.  However, just like the smoke that saved billowing from the smouldering heaps, a query hangs within the air: Who is accountable for the incident?

On Sunday, a high-level assembly was attended by three ministers on the collectorate took inventory of the scenario.  Short-term and long-term options to equip the administration to take care of such fires in future have been instructed. 

However, fixing accountability for the present disaster was not on agenda. After the assembly, P Rajeeve, the minister accountable for Ernakulam district, informed reporters the hearth can be absolutely contained by night. googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“Officials are using two large dewatering pumpsets to pump water from Kadambrayar river to the site of the fire at Brahmapuram. The water is being pumped after cleaning the river using a floating JCB, and 32 fire engines are being used to douse the flames.Additional portable pumps will be deployed,” Rajeeve stated. 

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Rajeeve stated if there are points with the water from the Kadambrayar, water from the lake of FACT, a public sector enterprise close by, will probably be used. On their half, the police and the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) have swung into motion. The police registered a case and launched a probe into the hearth. City police commissioner Okay Sethu Raman, requested by the chief secretary to submit a report on the circumstances that led to the hearth, visited the Brahmapuram dumpyard.

Meanwhile, KSPCB has determined to take steps to prosecute Kochi company. It has already slapped a show-cause discover on the civic physique, asking it to pay `1.8 crore as penalty for not adhering to Solid Waste Management Rules. “KSPCB decided to prosecute the corporation as merely imposing a penalty was deemed insufficient to get things done. The civic body has failed to follow solid waste disposal rules, which is why such incidents have been reported frequently at Brahmapuram,” stated Baburajan P Okay, chief environmental engineer, KSPCB-Ernakulam.

Still no phrase on who ought to take the accountability for the hazard. Sridhar R, former programme director of Thanal, an NGO, stated Kerala can’t maintain reiterating its numero uno standing amongst states with such miserably managed city waste in Kochi. Cities like Thiruvananthapuram and Alappuzha have eradicated their dumping yards or arrange centralised landfills, and are on the trail to a zero-waste impressed decentralised system, because of the efforts of Thanal, Suchitwa Mission and Harita Karma Sena, and the management of former Thiruvananthapuram mayor V Okay Prasanth former finance minister T M Thomas Isaac and former Thiruvananthapuram collector Okay Vasuki, he stated in a tweet, including the next.

“In Kochi, all we hear is filthy political exchange of blame.” S Gopakumar, an architect and president of Better Kochi Response Group (BKRG), stated he had written to the chief secretary on February 15, bringing to his consideration the worsening waste administration disaster within the district. “Without the involvement of public and public institutions, such as chambers of commerce, tourism, BKRG, and others, the issue cannot be tackled,” he stated, including that regardless of indicators {that a} harmful scenario was forming none took the initiative to deal with it. “It’s a mess. Fire tenders could not enter the area as there was no proper road access,” he stated.

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Road to be made accessible

Once the continued hearth situation is resolved, Kochi company will make the street to Brahmapuram waste plant extra accessible as early as doable, Rajeeve stated. “A temporary solution will be found to resume waste collection that was stalled for the past three to four days. The district collector will take necessary steps based on the corporation’s recommendations,” he stated.