LG VK Saxena visits all three landfill sites in Delhi to review the progress of legacy waste disposal

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23-03-2023
  • LG VK Saxena visits all three landfill sites in Delhi to review the progress of legacy waste disposal
  • In just 06 months, rate of legacy waste disposal has increased to nearly 06 lakh MT per month from just 1.41 lakh MT per month in June 2022 
  • Height of the garbage mounds at Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa  down by 15 mtrs in just 07 months 
  • With participation of people, Central Government agencies and Industries, monthly garbage disposal set to go up to 10 lakh MT in the next 03 months
  • After Waste-to-Energy Plants and Cement Companies, Paper Mills in western UP, for the first time have also started lifting up RDF waste from Delhi’s landfill sites
  • LG reiterates his commitment to flatten the garbage mounds in time 

The Lt. Governor, Shri VK Saxena today visited all the 3 Land Fill Sites at Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa and took stock the progress of the on-going waste remediation and disposal works that were initiated after his first such visit to the Ghazipur garbage mound on 29.05.2022, right after taking over as Lt. Governor. Subsequent personal monitoring and frequent site visits to assess the progress of works at the 03 landfill sites resulted in the work of flattening these garbage mounds gaining unprecedented momentum through expeditious disposal of legacy waste through various traditional and innovative means.

It may be noted that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has in its order dated 16.02.2023, constituted a High Level Solid Waste Monitoring Committee under the Lt. Governor, on the lines of the HLC constituted by it for cleaning of the Yamuna. 

Garbage that was being disposed from the 03 unseemly landfill sites at an average rate of 1.41 lakh MT per month from 2019 till June 2022, went up to about 6 lakh MT per month by December 2022,  thereby, increasing the legacy waste disposal by over 400 per cent. During the 07 months between July 2022 and February 2023, about 30 lakh MT of Solid Waste have been disposed from the landfill sites, which has resulted in reducing the height of garbage mounds at each of the 03 sites by at least 15 mtrs in just 07 months. 

Addressing officers on the occasion, the LG informed that sufficient infrastructure and arrangements with Central Government agencies and Industry have been now put in place to ensure a disposal rate of about 10 lakh MT per month, and instructed the MCD to achieve this target during the next 03 months. 

The LG informed that while 45 lakh MT of legacy Inert and C&D waste had been committed to be consumed by NHAI and DDA at their construction sites, public participation had ensured lifting of about 01 lakh MT Inert and C&D waste, during the last 06 months. Similarly, the Waste-to-Energy Power Plants, which were opened and upgraded during the last 06 months were consuming 6,000 MTs of RDF waste every day. An innovative step of involving the Corporate Sector to utilize the legacy RDF waste at the landfill sites, had resulted in the Cement Industry picking up about 15,000 to 20,000 MT of RDF waste every month for use as fuel. This has resulted in about 01 lakh MT of RDF being disposed sustainably during the last 07 months. As of now, 05 Cement Companies, situated till as far as Chittorgarh in Rajasthan, are picking up RDF from Delhi’s landfill sites. In another development Paper Mills situated in Western UP Districts like Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Itawa, etc. have also started lifting nearly 100 MT RDF waste per day from Delhi. 

The LG informed that nearly 400 acre of low-lying land belonging to the L&DO, at Badarpur is also planned to being filled using Inert and C&D waste from Okhla landfill site. The LG Secretariat is coordinating with Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA), GoI, to facilitate the same. At present, 50 Trommeling Machines with enhanced capacity are segregating waste at the 03 landfill sites in Delhi, up from 25 in June 2022, which is the highest in the country, anywhere.  For the purpose of Real Time Monitoring of bio-remediation of waste and its disposal, Control and Command Centres have been set up at the landfill sites and transportation trucks have been fitted with GPS mechanism. 

The LG expressed satisfaction over the pace of work at Okhla and Bhalswa landfill sites, which are set to achieve the capacity of disposing 15,000 MT of waste per day (4.5 lakh MT per month) at each of the two sites. However, he expressed his displeasure over the slow pace of work at Ghazipur landfill site and directed MCD officials to issue 07-day termination notice to the contractor to expedite the work failing which heavy penalty would be imposed and criminal proceedings against the contractor will be initiated for wasting government funds and time. 

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