Dhanbad Municipal Corporation staff didn’t allow workers hired by the Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd to dump garbage at the Jamadoba based compactor station due to lack of communication between the two bodies on Wednesday morning.

Ramky is contracted for a solid waste management project worth Rs 274 crore in Dhanbad, due to lack of resources, including adequate number of compactor stations required for dumping of garbage.

The issue was later resolved after senior officials of the DMC, led by executive officer of Chattatand Circle, Ritesh Kumar Singh arrived at the site. The stalemate highlights the acute shortage of resources for executing solid waste management, involving primary and secondary garbage dumping stations, apart from recycling plants.

The dispute began at around 9 am when garbage laden tippers of Ramky, carrying garbage from ward Number 9 to 13 of Chattatand Circle, reached the compactor station.

As per the existing arrangement, the dumping of garbage collected from ward number 9-13 of Chhatatand circle is carried out at the Kenduadih based compactor. The compactor station at Kenduadih developed some technical glitches this morning, hence the garbage was redirected to the Jamadoba compactor station.

Talking to the media at Jamadoba based compactor station, Ritesh Kumar Singh said, “As per the instruction of municipal commissioner, CM Kashyap the dumping of garbage collected from door to door is carried out by Ramky under the supervision of DMC staff of the respective circles. Ramky didn’t inform us about the technical snag in Kenduadih, hence our staff deputed at Jamadoba didn’t allow them to dump the garbage. The issue was resolved after the arrival of Chhatatand Circle staff.”

Only seven out of the total 30 required compactor stations have been provided by the DMC ever since the door to door collection began last year. From the initial 21 wards, the number gradually increased to 49 out of total 55 wards spread over five circles including, Jharia, Dhanbad, Sindri, Katras and Chhatatand.

Though the DMC has provided a list of around 10 other land sites to Ramky engineers for developing more compactor stations, compactor laying could not commence due to lack of NOC and other relevant records.

A proposed recycling station on 30 acres of Fertilizer Corporation of India land for carrying is yet to be developed. The development is part of a waste to energy project for generating power from garbage. The site identified at Sindri is yet to be transferred to the DMC.