URBAN CULTURE AND WILD LANDFILLS
1.02.2013

From 30 wild landfills, registered last year in the parts of Palilula, Nis, with the help of citizens and organizations of civil societies and Municipal services of inspection affairs, 15 locations were adapted into green surfaces with settled mobiliar for recreation activities for the children and young people. Part of the settlement of Crvena Zvezda in Palilula, Dusana Popovica street, last week was under the spotlight of public. Landfill that no one succeeded so far to remove from the street, was also the issue for many disputes over media. Boban Dzunic, president of Palilula Municipality, also announced over the matter and introduced the public with the fact that this organization of local self government of the City of Nis works according to the Action plan of the Municipality that represents operative tool for the implementation of the Strategy of development of Palilula Municipality and City of Nis. Four developmental priorities are defined with our vision of Municipal development: equal development of infrastructural systems, life environment protection, economic development-activation of development potentials for bigger employment and improvement of social services and more care for all the citizens of our municipality –emphasized Dzunic. Thanks to the projects and support of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and Ministry for state government and local self government as stimuli to further municipal development for the project `Transforming wild landfills into park surfaces` last year were provided the resources in the amount of 1,45 million RSD and we directed them to sanitation of 15 locations where waste was put. We transformed them into green surfaces.

According to Nenad Pavlovic words, coordinator of Communal inspection of Palilula Municipality, inspection organs of the municipality regularly supervise the whole territory of the Municipality as to, among the other things, prevent destroying of life surrounding. However, seven inspectors who work in Palilula Municipality are not physically in possibility to take into account all those surfaces. Maximal is done to, at least, put under constant supervision all these areas already previously greened. In this work very significant is the role of public – communal enterprises that, according to our demands, says Pavlovic clean and remove waste that is put out of waste containers and also over green surfaces. However, situation at the moment of public hygiene in certain parts of Palilula is very much problematic.

Communal inspection of Palilula Municipality many times with appropriate Decisions ordered to Public Enterprise Medijana, Nis the removal of the waste around containers in illegal settlement Crvena Zvezda. According to City Decision on maintenance of clean areas in the City of Nis territory, during every containers emptying the obligations is of the workers of public communal enterprises to remove also the waste around them. For any failure to comply with municipal inspectors certified by the Municipality according to Article 10 of the Decision on communal inspection on the territory of Nis `that promptly submit a request for criminal proceedings if it finds that the offense for violation of regulations` misdemeanor charge of Public Enterprise Medijana , Nis could be directed. This enterprise is in obligation to submit the demand for setting container on public surface in Dusana Popovica street, Crvena zvezda settlement of Palilula to Directorate for communal affairs, energetics and traffic and get appropriate license but is not done. Palilula Municipality put the communal supervision on a higher level last year. Acting on the complaints and demands of the citizens from Crvena Zvezda that Roma people from that wild settlement are deteriorating that life surrounding with constant formation of wild waste locations which actually represent the danger for the general health of the citizens, night shift of the communal inspectors and associates is introduced. The report from this location was defeating. It was established that beside number of warnings and discussions of the president Dzunic with the people living here, nothing new positive happened for the problem of waste in the streets and boulevard. In the current situation, obvious is the fact that neither Municipality nor Public communal enterprise would be ever able to solve this major problem. In this year of Milan Edict, emperor city of Nis must make one step more, at least when we are dealing with the life quality of our citizens.

More on the matter:

Wild landfill is in public traffic in Dusana Popovica street, cadastre parcel 1661/1 KO Nis- Cele Kula, in the possession of AD construction material `Cele Kula`-Nis that is not in practical state parcel, nor tried to introduce it to urban purpose of the General Plan. For not adequate burning of the collected waste in the objects of old Nis Brickyard, frequently comes to fire. In this cadastre parcel there are also two residential objects no 21 and 21 - a with more residential units of total surface of 800м2 that are in the property of the city. In the formal period, for the fact that construction inspection did not react, illegal further construction of these was made. No one of 32 people who got the decisions for the using residential unti of approximate surface of 24M2 in the period from 1968 to 1996 by the Residential department of the City administration, does not live in this `address`. According to the evidence of the Centre for social work, Crvena Zvezda, no 21 and 21-a, 207 people were reported who addressed here for social help.