Mohali, Aug. 20 -- A delegation of Chapparchiri residents, who have strongly opposed the proposed garbage processing plant in their area, met Municipal Corporation (MC) Commissioner Parminder Pal Singh Sandhu on Tuesday to reiterate their concerns over potential health and environmental hazards. However, Sandhu assured them that the plant would be a state-of-the-art, waste-to-energy facility, based on eco-friendly technology.

The protest comes in the wake of the MC's attempt to identify a new site for waste disposal, after the closure of its previous dumping ground following a Punjab and Haryana high court order. Mohali currently generates nearly 200 to 250 tonnes of waste daily, but lacks a fully functional system to manage it. Existing...