POLLUTION

Delhi Municipal Corporation to Flatten All Landfills By Dec 2024, Process 163 Lakh Tonnes Waste: CM Kejriwal

On Friday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that all three landfill sites in the national capital will be flattened by December 2024.

Talking to media persons, Kejriwal, who was at the Okhla Landfill site to review the garbage processing, said: "After the function of Municipal corporation starts smoothly and until the new plants are built, the garbage of this landfill sites will be dumped in Ghazipur and Bhalswa. There is a plan to clean off this garbage mountain completely by May and the remaining two mountains of the city by December next year".

The Okhla landfill site was commissioned 26 years ago. Right now, there is 40 lakh metric tonne of garbage here at this site, Kejriwal said, adding that a total of 20-25 lakh metric tonne of garbage has been removed.

"There are three types of garbage here. Presently, only about 4,500 tonnes are being disposed of every day. From April 1, 10,000 tonnes of garbage will be disposed of, and from June 1, 15,000 tonnes will be done," the Chief Minister concluded.

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