over by the mcf it is the only village in haryana where a village is still under a panchayat but land ownership has been given to a municipal corporation said a 66yearold villager karan singhthe villagers held two mahapanchayats after their petition was dismissed by the high court they also met faridabad mp krishan pal gurjar to raise their concernswe had recently met krishan pal gurjar ji and the mcf commissioner who offered the solution that waste dumping could be done constituencywise and each constituency would then have its own waste dumping and processing facility our village falls under the new industrial township nit constituency which has a dumpyard in pratapgarh and our waste goes there but the authorities still want a dumpyard in pali to dump the waste of badkhal constituency said surjeet singh 64 a farmer from the villagetoi also visited bandhwari village on wednesday where the villagers said they will boycott the upcoming mcg polls and haryana assembly elections in 2024 since the local civic body and state government have turned a blind eye to their problemsever since the dumpyard was set up their problems have been piling up along with the heaps of waste they said we used to sell milk to earn livelihood but the milk now has no takers the putrid stink of waste has made our life difficult when it rains the stench is so strong that we are unable to eat food and drink water we cannot use air coolers in summers since it lets the foulsmelling air from outside in the room we usually get through the day by covering our face with dupattas said krishna 45 adding that the women suffer the worst as they stay at home while the men go out of the village for workmany families have migrated from bandhwari to other areas due to the landfill they said mcgs tall claims of waste segregation fall flat when we see the mixed waste dumped at bandhwari daily we have seen it all over the years even biomedical waste is mixed with dry and wet waste no segregation is happening on the ground we have decided to boycott both mcg and the haryana assembly polls no party and no leader have done anything for us said sanjay harsana 47 a resident of bandhwariwe wont let politicians enter our village this time for campaigning and will sit in protest at the entrance of the village the leachate has polluted our water aquifers the air that we breathe is no less than poison he addeda senior mcg official said that the land initially identified for the diversion of daily waste was spread across 52 acres the new site plan that has been shared by the mcf officials shows that the land parcel is spread over 744 acres in the first phase 25 acres of land will be developed which the haryana chief secretary sanjeev kaushal said should be ready by april 22 the official addedwhen approached mcf executive engineer