Overview
- A garbage mound collapsed onto the Moshi waste‑to‑energy plant office on July 8, killing nine contract workers and prompting an 84‑hour rescue that pulled out nine survivors.
- Pimpri‑Chinchwad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi suspended chief engineer Sanjay Kulkarni and executive engineer Yogesh Alhat after finding their replies to show‑cause notices unsatisfactory and ordered departmental inquiries under state civil service rules.
- Kulkarni’s duties were handed to chief engineer Pramod Ombhase and Alhat’s responsibilities to executive engineer Soham Nikam while the inquiries proceed.
- At a stormy PCMC general body meeting corporators demanded a CBI or SIT probe, registration of culpable homicide cases, fast‑track trials, and Rs 1 crore compensation per family, and some protesters urged criminal action against the contractor.
- The commissioner warned the city processes only about 700 of 1,500 tonnes of daily waste and called for urgent steps such as ward‑level bio‑CNG, dry‑waste projects, land identification and a second waste‑to‑energy plant to prevent future landfill failures.