Jalpaiguri, Jan. 3: Residents of Panga have stopped the entry of garbage trucks to a dump yard since yesterday after an agreement that allowed the civic body to use the place expired on December 31. The residents also said while the municipality was concerned about cleaning up the Karala, where thousands of fish had floated up dead on November 28, the other river of the town, Panga, was being neglected. The secretary of Panga Pollution Resistance Committee, Sukdeb Sarkar said, they had signed an agreement with the civic body on September 21 mentioning that waste could not be thrown at the yard in Panga, 5km from here, after December 31. The officials had said they would find an alternative spot for dumping solid waste. Although the deadline passed, the civic body has not been able to find an alternative place to dump garbage. “The dumping ground at Panga has become full. The civic body has been dumping all types of waste from markets and households and even hospitals at the yard. The entire area has a foul odour and it has become unbearable for the residents. We have stopped the dumping of waste at the ground since yesterday,” Sarkar said. Garbage from all 25 wards of the municipality are dumped at Panga every day. Chairperson of the civic body, Mohan Bose, said: “We have identified 2.44 acres of vested land in Mongolghat in the outskirts of the town and we have appealed to the administration to allow us to use the place as an alternative dumping ground. If we are not allotted the land shortly, we will face serious problems regarding waste disposal.” He added that Jalpaiguri town generated around 60 tonne of waste every day. Subdivisional officer Sagar Chakrabarty said the land and land reforms department had been tasked to look for an alternative spot. “We are confident that we will get an official clearance for the plot from the department soon,” he said. The residents of Panga are also unhappy with the administration’s sudden focus on clean-up of the Karala, when the rest of the town is getting polluted. “They have no concern for the Panga river in the town which is equally, if not more polluted than the Karala,” said Arabinda Ghosh, convenor of the pollution resistance committee.