Gurgaon firm employees caught on camera burning garbage near Aravalli mountain

A Gurgaon-based company engaged in waste management has been accused of burning garbage in the ecologically sensitive Aravalli mountain range.

However, the company claimed that their vehicle was hijacked by some local goons who set the garbage on fire.

The employees of the Ecogreen Energy, responsible for collecting garbage from Gurgaon and Faridabad, were caught on camera while burning garbage in the open areas of Aravalli.

Local residents have submitted a complaint against this and also sent it to the Haryana State Pollution Control Board, the Municipal Corporation Gurgaon, the Gurgaon Metropolitan Development Authority and the Forest Department.

"The contract of garbage collection from Gurgaon and Faridabad followed by its disposal was given to a company named Ecogreen Energy but its employees regularly used to burn garbage in the open areas of Aravalli. This is their regular exercise," said Dayanand Rao, a resident of Gwal Pahari.

Another resident Satbir Singh said, "Residents of 16 adjoining villages are already facing health complications due to the non-functioning of the Bandhwari solid waste treatment plant and burning garbage in the region is simply creating havoc."
The company's CEO Ankit Agrawal said, "When you are trying to do something good for the society, it is natural for some vested interests to oppose it. From a last few months, people with malafide intention have tried to defame us."