17122024-CT-01.qxd 12/16/2024 11:46 PM Page 1 c m y b Chandigarh tribune FOUR ARRESTED FOR LOOTING ~35 LAKH COPPER SCRAP TOILET SHUT FOR MONTHS, TRADERS INCONVENIENCED FAREWELL, USTAD ZAKIR HUSSAIN The gang used to loot iron, copper and other material from godowns in Fatehgarh Sahib district. P2 Visitors, traders are inconvenienced as the only public toilet in Phase 3B2 market is non-functional. P2 Legendary tabla player Zakir Hussain has passed on, but he leaves behind a legacy for generations to cherish. P4 » » WHAT’S ON CHANDIGARH TFT Winter National Theatre Festival: ‘Loha Kutt’ to be staged on December 17, Mini Auditorium, Tagore Theatre, Sector 18, 6:30 pm, entry free APNI MANDI Chandigarh: Sectors 29, Sector 56 & Dhanas Mohali: Sector 71 Panchkula: Sector 15 Please send information about events in tricity at: whatson@tribunemail.com INBRIEF ONE BOOKED FOR STEALING PHONE Chandigarh: The UT police have booked an unidentified person for stealing a mobile phone from a shop in Sector 23. Manoj Bajaj reported that the suspect visited his shop and stole the phone. The police have registered a case at the Sector 17 police station and started investigation. TNS PARTLY CLOUDY MAX 26°C | MIN 6°C YESTERDAY MAX 26.1°C | MIN 6.1°C SUNSET TUESDAY 5.25 PM SUNRISE WEDNESDAY 7:12 AM » TUESDAY | 17 DECEMBER 2024 | CHANDIGARH FORECAST /THETRIBUNECHD FACEBOOK/CHANDIGARHTRIBUNE Entire Dadu Majra waste to be cleared by July: Centre 8 years on, PU Law Dept to reintroduce evening course Tewari had posed questions over trash mountains during Parliament session Akashdeep Virk Tribune News Service Chandigarh, December 16 Panjab University has given the go-ahead to the Department of Laws to reintroduce three-year evening LLB course. The university is planning to start one section with 60 seats for the course and will soon hold a meeting with the Bar Council of India for its approval. The course, which had been run by the university for almost three decades, was discontinued from academic session of 2017-18 after objections from the Bar Council of India. It was quite popular among full-time professionals, including top bureaucrats. While the earlier course was run under the aided system, this time, the students will have to pay higher fee as the university is planning a selffinanced programme. The Chandigarh, December 16 The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has stated that bioremediation of the entire waste at the Dadu Majra dumping ground will be completed by July 2025. In response to questions raised by city MP Manish Tewari over the garbage mountain at Dadu Majra during the ongoing Parliament session, Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, stated that as per information provided by the Municipal Corporation (MC), 5 lakh metric tonne of legacy waste had been bioremediated at the dump between 2019 and 2022. The work was executed by Chandigarh Smart City Limited. “The work for bio-remediation of 13.3 lakh cubic metre of waste is scheduled for completion by December 2024,” he said, adding that the MC has also informed the government that a large number of machines along with transportation system have been deployed for the bio-remediation of the remaining waste by July 2025. Tewari had asked Work underway at the Dadu Majra dumping ground in Chandigarh. FILE PHOTO the minister whether the government was aware that a mega garbage dump was located in Dadu Majra, which was causing a severe air and water pollution in sectors and 22 adjoining villages. He had further asked whether the Chandigarh Administration/Municipal Corporation had given an undertaking to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to clear the entire garbage dump by the last week of December 2024; whether the Government was aware that no substantive steps had been undertaken to wholly or substantially fulfil the undertaking given to the NGT; and what were the details of steps proposed to be taken by the government to address this issue. Inadequate waste-processing facilities had resulted in two legacy waste mountains of 5 lakh MT and 8 lakh MT at Dadu Majra in the past decades. continued on page 2 c m y b 20 ACRES RECLAIMED IN DECEMBER 2022 Awaits approval from Bar Council of India FILE Tribune News Service department is likely to run the course with two regular assistant professors and some guest faculty members. Vice-Chancellor Renu Vig said, “The Department of Laws had sent a proposal for resumption of the three-year evening law course, which has been approved by the admissions committee of the university. Now, we are awaiting the final nod from the Bar Council of India.” Before getting discontinued, the course used to have three sections with 180 seats for the evening mode. As present, the department is running five sections with around 300 seats in the day session. Now, it plans to introduce one section for evening course. “Owing to numerous queries from working professionals, continued on page 2 ■ Bioremediation of the old dump on 20 acres started on October 22, 2020, and the land cleared of trash in December 2022. ■ Work on the second waste mountain is underway. Only 20 MT of trash remains there, which will be removed by December-end. ■ A third mountain of nearly 1.25 LMT garbage, which has come up owing to non-segregation of daily waste, will be cleared by July. Showcause notice to MC officer Chandigarh, December 16 The Municipal Corporation (MC) has served a showcause notice on the Executive Engineer, Roads Division No. 3, for granting permission to a telecom firm for installation of temporary mobile towers ahead of Diljit’s concert held at Sector 34 on December 14. The officer has been asked why he did not take prior approval from the competent authority and followed prop- er procedure for granting permission to M/ Bharti Airtel Ltd on December 13 for installation of three mobile towers on a temporary basis against charges of Rs 20,000 plus GST. — TNS