L-G asks MCD officials to submit plan on razing Delhi’s garbage mountains
The Hindu
‘Special cell in L-G Secretariat will monitor the work on a weekly basis’
Lieutenant-Governor V.K. Saxena on Sunday visited the landfill site at Ghazipur and instructed MCD officials to submit an action plan in the next three days for razing all the three “garbage mountains” situated at Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla.
The L-G said the plan should mention a fixed date of completion and suggested adopting the reverse engineering model so as to ensure the goals achieved within the submitted deadlines.
Finding a solution to Delhi’s “garbage mountains” has been on the agenda of every political party and agency involved in Delhi’s governance but a permanent solution to the legacy problem has been evading them.
Currently, the Ghazipur landfill site in east Delhi has legacy waste amounting to 140 lakh metric tonnes, while the sites at Bhalswa in north Delhi and Okhla in south Delhi contain legacy waste mounds weighing 80 and 50 lakh metric tonnes respectively.
Massive fires broke out in Ghazipur and Bhalswa landfills in the last two months, yet again raising a question on the effort taken to get rid of the legacy waste at the landfill sites.
The L-G said that once the plan is drawn out, he would himself monitor the progress and visit the sites to check the actual progress at regular intervals. “A special cell will also be put in place in the L-G Secretariat to monitor the work on a weekly basis,” Mr. Saxena added.
MCD officials were instructed to regularly put out in public domain the reduction in height of the mounds achieved as a result of their efforts at all the three sites in Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla.
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