Govt rejected land swap offer from private party over a decade ago While protests over dumping of garbage at Achen have again snowballed into a controversy between the residents and the Srinagar Municipal Corporation, the successive governments turned down the land swap offer from the private partners. We learnt landfill site wasn’t in use few years and there wasn’t any major problem. The city has city now turned into hostage over garbage disposal. Officials told the newspaper the major controversy erupted only in 2007, when a convoy of Srinagar Municipal Corporation…
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