ADVERTISEMENTThe waste management plant residents believed they had halted had been built overnight, while the district slept. Bhat asked the Pollution Control Committee to examine the Ohangam site, and the committee’s divisional office in Budgam sent an inspector within days. Waste, the inspector wrote, was already being dumped along the roadside of the Ohangam-Rathsun-Soibugh road, a route that links several villages and carries daily traffic. Bhat said he intends to bring the case before the National Green Tribunal and will seek compensation on behalf of the Ohangam panchayat. For the families living within a few hundred meters of the site, the question is not abstract.