Shillong, May 22: Power Minister AT Mondal has said the Meghalaya Power Generation Corporation (MePGCL) will clear the garbage floating and polluting the Ganol river following heavy rain.
The intention is to prevent it from affecting the power project.
Mondal said, “It is not only an eye sore but it is also dangerous for the generation and safety of the Ganol dam as the garbage may create trouble for the project also, it may percolate down to the power house and create problems to our machineries. Therefore, we need to immediately remove the garbage.
“I am in constant touch with the deputy commissioner and I have instructed to take remedial measures. Accordingly, the DC has visited the site yesterday and tomorrow he is sending the BDO to sensitize the people in the upstream including the home stays, markets not to haphazardly dump their garbage. We have to monitor this continuously, otherwise it will repeatedly happen whenever it rains and they will carry all the garbage to the river.”
The minister has also taken up the matter with the chief minister Conrad K Sangma and said, “I had a word with the CM and he also agreed that we should have some kind of mechanism through which we can prevent such a situation from recurring.”
