Residents complain that the crusher industry operating arbitrarily near the settlement has caused noise and air pollution
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Locals have demanded immediate removal of the crusher industry operating in Ajirkot Rural Municipality-4 Dhodeni without meeting even the minimum standards.
The crusher industry opened for the road project is next to Dhodeni settlement. Surya Rana Magar, a local, said that the crusher industry, which is located near the river bank and the settlement, has been harassed due to noise and air pollution. "The crusher runs from morning till late in the evening, the dust reaches the settlements, the sound of the crusher running till late in the evening has made it impossible to live," he said.
A crusher industry was established a year ago for the purpose of Simjung-Ghyachok road construction. But the locals said that the crusher industry is operating at a distance of about 10 kilometers from Simjung village, the starting point of the road construction. There is a provision that no crusher industries can be operated and established within five hundred meters from the settlement, river bank.
Locals are suffering from the arbitrariness of the crusher industry against the standards. Man Bahadur Tamang of Ajirkot-4 said that the materials of the industry, which was established only for the construction materials required for road projects, are being sold for commercial purposes as well. "The road construction contractor has operated the crusher, but the starting point of the road is almost 10 km from the place where the crusher is located," he said.
There is a provision that the crusher industry established for road projects cannot sell and distribute construction materials for commercial purposes. Locals have been asking many times before not to operate the crusher industry . Locals have alleged that the contractor company Navkantipur-Construction Pvt. Ltd. Proprietor Janak Bhatt, who was entrusted with the construction of the road, did not even consider the minimum standards for the operation of the industry. Local Bhimkumar Gurung said that the crusher industry operating near the motorable bridge and road side, river bank and the settlement has harassed the residents of the settlement.
'The biggest problem is the dust and the noise of the crusher,' he said A petition has been submitted to the district administration office on Tuesday, demanding the immediate removal of the local crusher after taking a decision from the village meeting. They came to the district administration office with the signatures of 46 local residents and demanded action against the contractor company who violated the law by removing the crusher from that place. The local residents complained that they were forced to come to the district administration office after the demand was not heard when they informed the village council verbally. Proprietor of Navkantipur Construction Pvt. Ltd. Janak Bhatt said that the crusher industry was operated with a temporary permission from the rural municipality for the
project. "There will be a few complaints, there is no big settlement nearby," he said, "We have taken permission to operate temporarily, the project will run for the duration, and it will be closed automatically after the completion of the road construction". Navakantipur Construction has established crusher industry . Ganesh Subedi, Head of Infrastructure Development Office Gorkha, said that 42 percent of the road, which was contracted last year to be completed within two years, has been completed so far.
Chief District Officer Punyavikram Paudel said that the study and monitoring of the crusher industry falls within the jurisdiction of the District Coordination Committee. "There is a committee chaired by the head of the coordination committee, we will discuss this issue there as well," he said.
