Ghaziabad (UP), March 1 Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said on Sunday that setting up a waste management plant on fertile agricultural land near residential areas violates both environmental standards and basic human compassion.
The farmer leader was addressing a Mahapanchayat at Meerpur Hindu village in Ghaziabad district on Sunday, which was convened to protest against a local landfill site and a proposed waste management plant.
Farmers of the area have been staging a sit-in for the past two weeks, demanding the immediate removal of the garbage dumping site in the village.
According to a statement issued by Neeraj Tyagi, one of the organizers of the Mahapanchayat, Tikait said that no construction work will be allowed in the area without the consent of the farmers.
Tyagi earlier told