Kolkata: The NGT eastern zonal bench, comprising Justice B Amit Sthalekar and Arun Kumar Verma, directed state pollution control board, central PCB and the state health department to file counter affidavits to activist Subhas Datta's allegation that 49% biomedical waste in Bengal was improperly processed. The counter affidavits have to be filed in four weeks.
Datta cited a CAG report, stating nearly half the biomedical waste remained untreated, despite WBPCB's claim in 2023 that all 43,120.9 kg biomed waste generated every day was properly disposed of. Datta refuted this claim by citing discrepancies in per-bed waste generation figures.
At Malbazar Super Facility Hospital on May 11, 2024, Datta found biomedical and general waste being dumped together in the backyard and he photographed it. The NGT took cognisance of it, saying WBPCB's claim of 100% waste treatment was contradicted by on-ground realities and that data suggested an understatement of at least 49.5%.
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