Waste removal progress at Gazipur landfill not satisfactory: Delhi CM


New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday visited the Gazipur landfill site and said the progress in clearing garbage from the massive dump was “unsatisfactory”. Talking to reporters, CM Kejriwal said that he has proposed to hire two more agencies to speed up the work, after the approval of the Standing Committee of Delhi Municipal Corporation. Will come in place. He said that in a joint venture, three companies have been entrusted with the task of processing waste at Gazipur landfill.

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However, since they started working on the project, the three agencies have been fighting each other, the chief minister said, adding that progress on removing waste from the landfill was “not satisfactory at all”. CM Kejriwal added,

There is already a plan to hire another agency, so I have asked them to hire two agencies instead of one, so that the work can be expedited and we can clear this mountain of garbage as soon as possible. can

The chief minister said that once the standing committee is constituted and gives clearance to hire two new agencies, “we will think whether to retain the existing agencies or not”. He further said that

I am informed that the MCD has completed its paperwork pending approval by the Standing Committee.

The civic authorities had earlier said that the last date to flatten the Ghazipur landfill is December 2024.

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In 2019, the height of Ghazipur Landfill was 65 meters which is only eight meters less than the height of Qutub Minar. In 2017, a portion of the Ghazipur landfill fell onto an adjacent road, killing two people.

AAP had cleared three landfill sites from one of its poll plates ahead of the civic polls in December, which it won with a comfortable victory.

CM Kejriwal had visited the Okhla landfill site on Wednesday and said that the work of processing and removing waste from the large dump was progressing behind the expected target. His visit to the Okhla landfill came days after he inspected work at the Bhalaswa landfill site on September 30.

There was a total of 45 lakh tonnes of waste in this mountain of garbage in Okhla. CM Kejriwal said on Wednesday that work to process and gradually remove it began last November, and the target was to remove 3 million tonnes by May 2024. he said

But, the work is running slightly behind the expected target. About 1.8 lakh tonnes were supposed to be extracted so far but 1.2 lakh tonnes have been removed.

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