Preparations are being made to collect covid tax from vehicles entering Dehradun Municipal Corporation Dehradun. 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. In the meeting many other suggestions and proposals were given. The executive meeting was held in the presence of Mayor Sunil Uniyal Gama and Municipal Commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey. Discussions were held to increase the income of the municipal corporation in this meeting. The most important discussion in this was the entry tax on vehicles in Dehradun. It can be levied as eco tax in Mussoorie. All councilors and members also agreed to it from Muktakanth.

Mayor Sunil Uniyal Gama and Commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey said that legal opinions were being taken in this regard. Not only this, it can be imposed or not, all this is also being discussed with legal experts. Only after this the proposal will be sent to the government. The Municipal Corporation is now going to set up a plant for disposal of Bio Medical Waste. For this, a proposal was made in 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 the urban area, besides 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 by the corporation in a board meeting. Currently, bio-medical of some hospitals in the city goes to the plant located in West 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 now. Now the Municipal Corporation is also preparing to quarantine the patients of Kovid 19 in the schools built in the wards. For this, permission will be sought by sending a proposal to the District Magistrate on behalf of the Municipal Corporation. The proposal was passed in the corporation executive headed by Mayor Sunil Uniyal Gama. According to the mayor, it came to the notice that people with small houses are worried about keeping the corona suspect patient in the house. In such a situation, efforts are now being made to implement this system.

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