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3. The Narasingapuram Municipality has filed a Counter Affidavit stating that Narasingapuram is a second grade municipality and population in about 26000. The average generation of the municipal solid waste in Narasingapuram Municipality is about 9.6 MT/day. In order to tackle the increasing volume of solid waste, which is the result of increasing economic growth, urbanization and industrialization, a project report was prepared for the management of decentralized Micro Compost Plant in accordance with Solid Waste Management Rule 2016 to cover (i) Waste segregation (ii) Collection (iii) Transportation (iv) Processing and (v) Disposal. The project costs about Rs.196.45 lakhs. The Municipality has stated that the http://www.judis.nic.in construction of Micro Compost Centre work in ward No.13 (Old TNHB) with the processing capacity of 3.00TPD including a compound wall and approach road work is in progress. Tender was called on 14.03.2018 and work order was issued on 10.04.2018. It is stated that at present drilling of bore well work is completed, the compound wall work is completed, Micro compost shed work is physically completed up to the roof level and now the work is fixing of A.C.sheets for roof and construction of masonry tub work are in progress.

4. It is stated that the park is an extent of 29620.80 sq.ft and only an extent of 4260.00 sq.ft is being taken for Micro Compost Plant. It is therefore submitted that only 3.44 % of the area is taken up for providing a Micro compost centre. It is stated in the counter affidavit that only tree leaves fallen and segregated, degradable waste from the surrounding localities of the park site are proposed to be collected and scientifically processed in the Micro compost centre to prepare manure to the farmers to be given to them at free of cost. It is also stated that only a small area of the park is being used and only degradable waste would be taken such as vegetable waste, tree leaves and other kitchen wastes collected from the households would be taken into compost yard for being converted into manure.

10. This Court, by order dated 22.01.2018 in the case of M.S.Rangarajan Vs. The Pammal Municipality, Pammal, Chennai, has observed as under:-
14. According to the 1st respondent/ Municipality, the playground in question was not maintained properly. As per the Municipal Solid Waste Rules, 2016, the local body is required to set up Municipal Solid Waste handling facility as well as Micro Composting Facility within a small geographical area, so that the highly bio-degradable wastes, such as vegetables, fruits and food waste can be reused by means of micro composting, where, the end-product viz. manure can be effectively used for gardening and agriculture. It is the http://www.judis.nic.in further case of the 1st respondent/Municipality that the Micro Composting facility is to occupy only a meagre portion of the playground with a Toilet for the workers engaged in the composting facilities to prevent open defecation in the area, apart from a small storage room for the safe storage of the packaged manure meant for disposal.
16. Though the petitioner has raised genuine issues as regards pollution of all sorts due to the setting up of Micro Compost Plan in the Playground, this Court opines that the garbage that is dumped in and around the layout and playground, will be collected by the workers of Micro Compost Yard and segregated into bio-gradable wastes and non-bio-degradable wastes, to ensure that the place is neat. As regards pollution, the 1st respondent/ Municipality, in paragraph 9 of its counter affidavit, has clearly stated that the composting will be carried out in hermetically constructed tubs using bricks and concrete of proper specifications for water proofing and will be self-