In a strong show of resistance by residents, more than 500 Sus and Baner residents made a human chain on Sunday, June 1, 2025, to protest against a garbage processing plant on Sus Road. Despite a heavy downpour, men, women, senior citizens, and children came together to protest the facility’s relocation, which has remained a source of stench and health risks since it was opened in 2016. The 1,494 square-meter plant has fueled anger for messing up normal life as well as causing environmental concerns in the population-dense community.
Mrudula Narale
Pune | June 02 , 2025: The waste processing plant, which is based at Sr. No. 48, which has riled anger for its scientifically unsound waste disposal system. Wet trash, gathered citywide, tends to rot on the 48-hour trip to the plant, where it is kept in the open before being treated. This results in a widespread stench that wafts 500–600 meters, worsened by the plant’s siting on a windswept slope. The facility’s drainage system, tied to residential lines, regularly leaks, dumping waste onto roads and into insanitary conditions. Locals claim that the plant releases toxic gases, breeds flies, mosquitoes, bacteria, and viruses, and threatens to pollute groundwater resources.
The round-the-clock passage of refuse trucks, JCBs, and slurry tankers has also destroyed the tranquility of the locality, while inadequate infrastructure makes things worse. Even though there were promises from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in the past that the plant would run without smell or leakage, all such promises have been proved to be empty. The operations of the facility are against environmental norms, and complaints to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board have been fruitless. The residents suspect negligence or conspiracy between civic authorities and the management of the plant, which has added to their ire.
Earlier orders by state authorities to close and shift the plant based on health and environmental reasons have not been heeded by the PMC. The location near residential areas and the effects on water and air have turned it into a center of community displeasure. Efforts to counter the stench in the past, based on advice from pollution control agencies and research organizations, have not been successful because of the inappropriate site of the plant, where the high winds increase the dissemination of odorous air.
The human chain protest is a last resort appeal for action and responsibility. Locals are calling for the PMC to move the factory, advance drainage systems, and implement more rigorous waste management practices. The health hazards, environmental pollution, and routine disturbances created by the facility have galvanized the community against their struggle for a cleaner, healthier environment. With Sus and Baner expanding further, the necessity of green urban planning cannot be more crucial. The residents’ resolve underscores a broader demand for civic responsibility, urging authorities to prioritize public health and environmental integrity over mismanaged waste processing.
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