Dehradun Nagar Nigam mulls ‘Covid-tax’ on vehicles entering from outside

Preparations are being made to collect Covid tax from vehicles entering Dehradun Municipal Corporation. In the executive meeting of the corporation on Thursday, this tax was suggested in the matters related to increasing income. Apart from this, the proposal to set up a biomedical waste plant in Dehradun was also approved.

Many other suggestions and proposals were made in the meeting. The executive meeting was held in the presence of Mayor Sunil Uniyal Gama and Municipal Commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey. In this meeting, discussions were held to increase the income of the municipal corporation. The most important discussion in this was the entry tax on vehicles in Dehradun. It can be levied as eco tax is levied while entering Mussoorie. All councilors and members also agreed to it.

Mayor Sunil Uniyal Gama and Commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey said that legal opinions were being taken in this regard. For this legal opinion is also being sought after. Only then will the proposal be sent to the government.

Construction of bio medical waste plant

The Municipal Corporation is now going to set up a plant for disposal of bio medical waste. A proposal for this was made at the board meeting in January last. This has now been stamped in the meeting of the Executive. Currently, according to a report, medical waste of 97 major hospitals in the district is being dumped on the road itself. Of these, 45 hospitals are in urban areas.

Apart from this, there are dozens of nursing homes and clinics, which are dumping their garbage in municipal dustbins. To avoid this, a proposal is being made to set up a bio-medical waste treatment plant at the board meeting on behalf of the corporation.

Presently, bio-medical of some hospitals in the city goes to the waste plant located in Roorkee. It is being told that the plant was built in Roorkee in the year 2003 and its NOC was for 12 years till 2015. Even after this, the garbage is being dumped right there.