PIMPRI: The residents of Moshi have decided to observe a bandh on Sunday to oppose dumping of garbage from Pune city.

In a meeting, the residents have expressed their opposition to hand over the site reserved for a proposed Safari Park for dumping garbage of Pune city. The meeting was attended by local sitting and former corporators of various political parties.

Even in the past, the residents organised protests with a demand to shift the local garbage depot. They also halted garbage vehicles as a part of the agitation to oppose it.

Soon after the merger of the Moshi village into Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), the municipal corporation had opened a dumping site in the area. The local residents have been fighting against the menace caused by the dumped garbage since then. The residents have maintained that the garbage depot had posed health and other problems to the locals.

PCMC Development Plan (DP) has reserved the Gayran land in Moshi for a recreation centre, an administrative and multipurpose building and a Safari Park. Pune Municipal Corporation has sought the reserved land for the Safari Park for an independent garbage depot.