MCD calls bids for Phase-2 of biomining at Delhi’s three landfills
5 months, 1 week ago

MCD calls bids for Phase-2 of biomining at Delhi’s three landfills

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Biomining through trommel machines underway at the Ghazipur landfill site. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has initiated the process for launching the second phase of biomining legacy waste at landfill sites in Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla, officials aware of the matter said, citing the end of contract periods for the current operators. According to officials, three million tonnes of legacy waste is to be cleared at Ghazipur and Bhalswa landfills, each, and two MT of waste at the Okhla landfill. The process of biomining legacy waste started in 2019 on the directions of the National Green Tribunal, which directed that the sites be “cleared within one year” and “substantial progress must be made and demonstrated within six months”. The three erstwhile MCDs launched the biomining project in July 2019, to clear an estimated 28MT of legacy waste across the three landfill sites.

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MCD to fire Ghazipur landfill operator
1 day, 5 hours ago

MCD to fire Ghazipur landfill operator

Hindustan Times  

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to terminate the contract of the private operator responsible for clearing the Ghazipur landfill site, the city’s largest garbage dump, due to “non-performance” and “failure to meet deadlines”, senior officials aware of the matter said on Sunday. Bids have been reinvited for second phase for clearing 3 million tonne of waste which is …

No end to Chandigarh’s trash trouble as third mountain rises at Dadumajra dump
1 week, 3 days ago

No end to Chandigarh’s trash trouble as third mountain rises at Dadumajra dump

Hindustan Times  

The city’s garbage crisis shows no sign of abating, as a third mountain of waste, holding a massive 1.25 lakh metric tonnes of waste, has emerged at the Dadumajra landfill. Already struggling to clear the existing legacy waste at the Dadumajra landfill, Chandigarh MC will take at least 43 more months to clear the fresh heap of 1.25 lakh MT. …

Ludhiana: ₹53-crore project launched to manage waste
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Ludhiana: ₹53-crore project launched to manage waste

Hindustan Times  

The Municipal Corporation on Saturday launched a major project worth over ₹53 crore to dispose of around 700 metric tonnes of fresh waste generated in the city on a daily basis. Projects worth around ₹77 crore have already been launched in the past for bioremediation of around 19.62 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste at the Jamalpur main dump site …

Now, Chandigarh admn pushes deadline to clear Dadumajra landfill to December
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Now, Chandigarh admn pushes deadline to clear Dadumajra landfill to December

Hindustan Times  

After already failing to meet multiple deadlines, the UT administration has now pushed the deadline to clear the entire legacy waste at the Dadumajra landfill to December 31. In the status report submitted to the green tribunal, the department noted that in May, nearly 430 TDP of the total 500 TDP solid waste generated in the city was processed. The …

Process to flatten Delhi’s landfills slowest at Ghazipur, fresh dumping goes on
8 months ago

Process to flatten Delhi’s landfills slowest at Ghazipur, fresh dumping goes on

Hindustan Times  

An ongoing process to flatten Delhi’s three landfills is progressing slowest at Ghazipur, according to a progress report submitted by MCD to the Delhi Pollution Control Committee in February this year. The report said that of the 28 million tonnes of legacy waste at Delhi’s three landfill sites — Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla —11.9 million tonnes was cleared since July …

Biomining at landfills in Ghazipur, Bhalswa set to miss latest deadline
9 months ago

Biomining at landfills in Ghazipur, Bhalswa set to miss latest deadline

Hindustan Times  

The ongoing biomining project at two of the Capital’s three landfill sites — Ghazipur and Bhalswa — are likely to miss the latest deadline of 2024 to clear the sites, Municipal Corporation of Delhi officials aware of the matter said on Sunday. The civic body admitted that the three landfill sites still have 17.2 million tonnes of legacy waste, due …

Delhi LG, CM Kejriwal launch capital’s first engineered landfill site
9 months, 1 week ago

Delhi LG, CM Kejriwal launch capital’s first engineered landfill site

Hindustan Times  

Lieutenant governor VK Saxena and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated the first engineered landfill site of the city in Tehkhand, which is located next to the Okhla dumpsite. Read here: LG, Kejriwal to open Delhi’s first engineered landfill site LG said that the site has been developed under the central government’s Swachh Bharat Mission 1.0 at the cost of ₹42.3 …

LG, CM launch Delhi’s first engineered landfill site
9 months, 1 week ago

LG, CM launch Delhi’s first engineered landfill site

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Delhi has operationalised its fourth landfill site on Tuesday with the inauguration of the Tehkhand engineered landfill site in south-east Delhi even as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s biomining project to clear the three existing dumpsites has witnessed delays, officials aware of the matter said. Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched the …

LG, Kejriwal to open Delhi’s first engineered landfill site
9 months, 1 week ago

LG, Kejriwal to open Delhi’s first engineered landfill site

Hindustan Times  

Delhi’s first engineered landfill site will be made operational on Tuesday with the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and lieutenant governor VK Saxena opening the facility, a spokesperson for the Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi’s office said on Monday. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and lieutenant governor VK Saxena will be inaugurating Delhi’s first engineered landfill site this week. Unlike the …

Biomining at Kalamassery expected to be completed in nine months
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Biomining at Kalamassery expected to be completed in nine months

The Hindu  

The biomining of around 46,700 metric tonnes of legacy waste lying at the dumping site of the Kalamassery municipality is expected to be completed in nine months, if everything goes as planned. The long-pending work received a boost after the government awarded ₹95.2-crore worth contract for biomining and retrieval of 20 legacy dumping sites in the State, including Kalamassery on …

Three more private agencies hired by MCG to remove waste from Bandhwari
1 year, 1 month ago

Three more private agencies hired by MCG to remove waste from Bandhwari

Hindustan Times  

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has hired three more private agencies to process waste from the Bandhwari landfill and they are to set up processing units at the landfill within a month, said civic officials on Monday, even as the deadline to process legacy waste was extended to April next year from November this year. Kumar said they are involving …

Pace of work at Ghazipur landfill significantly slow, says Kejriwal
1 year, 2 months ago

Pace of work at Ghazipur landfill significantly slow, says Kejriwal

The Hindu  

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the Ghazipur landfill on Friday and expressed displeasure at the progress in clearing the garbage mound. The Chief Minister said only 5.25 lakh tonnes of waste had been cleared from the site, against the target of 15 lakh tonnes announced by the Aam Aadmi Party after it came to power in the Municipal Corporation of …

Delhi government on track to clear garbage mountains: Kejriwal
1 year, 2 months ago

Delhi government on track to clear garbage mountains: Kejriwal

The Hindu  

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that his government is on track to free the city of “garbage mountains” at its three landfill sites, a statement contested by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which claimed tardy pace of work at the Ghazipur landfill. Today, I visited the Bhalswa landfill site and I am happy to report that the work …

L-G reviews progress of clearing city’s garbage mounds
1 year, 8 months ago

L-G reviews progress of clearing city’s garbage mounds

The Hindu  

Saxena Delhi’s inspected the three landfill sites — Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa — and reviewed the progress of clearing legacy waste, L-G House officials said on Thursday. The L-G noted that the rate of disposal has increased to 8 lakh metric tonnes per month, the officials added. The L-G has directed the officials concerned to achieve the target of close …

From tomorrow, MCG to dump waste at new site in Bandhwari
1 year, 8 months ago

From tomorrow, MCG to dump waste at new site in Bandhwari

Hindustan Times  

A National Green Tribunal-appointed panel on Thursday asked the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram to expedite the remediation of legacy waste at the Bandhwari plant to ensure that they meet the September 2023 deadline set by the green tribunal. Gurugram, India-April 13, 2023: A MCG truck dump the garbage at Bandhwari waste treatment plant located at Gurugram-Faridabad road near Toll Plaza, …

MCD draws up plan to utilise cleared landfill sites
1 year, 8 months ago

MCD draws up plan to utilise cleared landfill sites

Hindustan Times  

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has begun planning for the utilisation of 202 acres of land spread across the Capital’s three landfill sites, that it has committed to clear by December 2024, officials aware of the matter said on Wednesday. MCD aims to use the three sites at Okhla, Bhalswa and Ghazipur, when cleared, to set up five waste processing …

MCD unlikely to flatten Okhla landfill by year-end
1 year, 8 months ago

MCD unlikely to flatten Okhla landfill by year-end

The Hindu  

: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is unlikely to clear the Okhla Sanitary Landfill by the end of this year, a senior civic official said. In March this year, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that Okhla and Bhalswa SLFs will be cleared by December 2023 and March 2024, respectively. According to the data provided by the official, the Okhla and …

Kejriwal directs MCD to expedite work on clearing Delhi’s landfills
1 year, 8 months ago

Kejriwal directs MCD to expedite work on clearing Delhi’s landfills

Hindustan Times  

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday directed municipal officials to expedite work on clearing the three landfills in the city, formulate a landfill management plan within next 15 days and construct a new construction-demolition waste processing plant on an “emergency basis”, a government spokesperson said. The chief minister held a review meeting on Thursday with Municipal Corporation of Delhi …

Yamuna Clean-up, Removal of Landfill Garbage Key Focus of Delhi Budget
1 year, 9 months ago

Yamuna Clean-up, Removal of Landfill Garbage Key Focus of Delhi Budget

News 18  

Themed “neat and clean Delhi”, the annual budget of the Arvind Kejriwal government will focus on cleaning of Yamuna and removing three mountains of garbage from landfill sites in the city, official sources said on Saturday. In the budget 2023-24, to be tabled in the ongoing session of the Assembly, Delhi government will lay out a plan to beautify and …

Will clear Okhla landfill by December: CM
1 year, 9 months ago

Will clear Okhla landfill by December: CM

The Hindu  

: The Okhla landfill will be cleared by this December, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said during a visit to the site on Friday. After being elected the Mayor last month, Ms. Oberoi, in an interview with The Hindu, said she had visited a landfill with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and work on the three landfills had started. “Once the …

Our target is to clear all three landfill sites in Delhi by December 2024: CM Kejriwal
1 year, 9 months ago

Our target is to clear all three landfill sites in Delhi by December 2024: CM Kejriwal

The Hindu  

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on March 3 visited the Okhla landfill site and said the target is to clear the city of all three mountains of garbage by December 2024. Asked when will Delhi become free of these landfill sites, he said, "One will be cleared by May, and another one six months later." On the Okhla landfill site, …

AAP will solve Delhi\'s garbage problem in 5 years if voted to MCD: Gopal Rai
2 years ago

AAP will solve Delhi\'s garbage problem in 5 years if voted to MCD: Gopal Rai

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: AAP Delhi convener and minister Gopal Rai Friday asserted his party will solve the city's garbage management problem within five years, if voted to power in the MCD, saying the BJP failed in its 15-year-tenure in the civic body. The party released 'Kejriwal's 10 guarantees' for the December 4 MCD polls earlier this month with the promise to …

Delhi civic body refutes claims regarding slow disposal of garbage at landfill sites
2 years, 2 months ago

Delhi civic body refutes claims regarding slow disposal of garbage at landfill sites

India Today  

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi refuted allegations made against it regarding slow disposal of garbage at landfill sites. The civic body said it has cleared 58 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste from all three landfill sites in 2.5 years and not in 15 years as claimed. "The Corporation would like to underline that it has set a target of …

Delhi’s garbage mountains will take 197 years to clear at current pace: Data
2 years, 4 months ago

Delhi’s garbage mountains will take 197 years to clear at current pace: Data

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Delhi is sitting on 27.6 million tonnes of waste across three landfills, a marginal decline from the 28 million 34 months ago, when it embarked on an ambitious ₹250 crore programme to clear the landfills -- a statistic that raises questions about the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s ability to complete the task in the next 16 months, the …

Waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur landfill shut for over 6 months: NGT panel
2 years, 4 months ago

Waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur landfill shut for over 6 months: NGT panel

Hindustan Times  

The only waste-to-energy plant at the Ghazipur landfill site has been shut for more than seven months, said a panel put together by the National Green Tribunal, ordering an enquiry against the concessionaire of the facility and asking civic bodies to consider temporarily diverting garbage from east Delhi and dumping it in the Okhla landfill. Ghazipur landfill The committee has …

Chandigarh’s legacy waste removal project: Firm makes lowest bid of ₹79 crore, MC to try to bring it lower
2 years, 4 months ago

Chandigarh’s legacy waste removal project: Firm makes lowest bid of ₹79 crore, MC to try to bring it lower

Hindustan Times  

The work on removing the second lot of 7.67 metric tonnes of legacy waste at the Dadumajra landfill is likely to start soon. A total of 12.7 lakh MT legacy waste is to be cleared from the 25-acre Dadumajra landfill in Chandigarh. In its second attempt at allotting the work, the municipal corporation on Thursday opened the financial bids, in …

Biomining of legacy waste, waste-to-energy plants among steps MCD taking to flatten landfills
2 years, 6 months ago

Biomining of legacy waste, waste-to-energy plants among steps MCD taking to flatten landfills

Firstpost  

Around 50 officials have been entrusted with the task of reducing the height of landfill sites and monthly deadlines have also been set up New Delhi: MCD has listed steps such as biomining of legacy waste and setting up of waste-to-energy plants being taken to flatten and shut garbage dumping sites in its status report on landfills which is likely …

Need ₹1,847cr to flatten landfills, say MCDs
2 years, 8 months ago

Need ₹1,847cr to flatten landfills, say MCDs

Hindustan Times  

An estimated ₹1,847 crore will be needed to clear the three landfills --- Bhalswa, Okhla and Ghazipur --- in Delhi, senior municipal officials said even as the three civic bodies are struggling to meet the deadlines for removing the legacy waste at these garbage mountains. According to the report submitted by the corporations, a copy of which HT has seen, …

PM Modi says ‘garbage mountains’ need to be wiped out
3 years, 2 months ago

PM Modi says ‘garbage mountains’ need to be wiped out

Hindustan Times  

While launching the second phase of government’s flagship programme, Swachh Bharat Mission, on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid emphasis on wiping out the “mountains of garbage” from India’s cities by processing all legacy waste. Dubbed the tallest waste mountain in the country — in 2019, before bio-mining began in Ghazipur, the mounds were as high as 65 metres, just …

Plan to flatten landfills in Delhi may be delayed after record monsoon
3 years, 2 months ago

Plan to flatten landfills in Delhi may be delayed after record monsoon

Hindustan Times  

The heavy monsoon in the national capital this year may interfere with the Delhi municipal corporations’ target of flattening their three major garbage dumps by September 24, officials of the civic bodies said. The Okhla landfill in south Delhi holds an estimated 5.64 million metric tonnes of legacy waste, and data from the civic body shows that approximately 630,000 MT …

Bandhwari WTE plant on MCG priority list, October deadline set for groundwork
3 years, 6 months ago

Bandhwari WTE plant on MCG priority list, October deadline set for groundwork

Hindustan Times  

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram on Saturday directed its waste management concessionaire, Ecogreen, to clear at least 10 acres at the Bandhwari landfill by October for setting up a waste-to-energy plant. MCG commissioner Mukesh Kumar Ahuja directed the agency to clear a portion of legacy waste and move the existing compost and refuse-derived fuel at the landfill to an alternative …

Entire Garbage at Ghazipur Landfill Site Will Be Processed by December 2024, Says Gautam Gambhir
4 years ago

Entire Garbage at Ghazipur Landfill Site Will Be Processed by December 2024, Says Gautam Gambhir

News 18  

East Delhi BJP MP Gautam Gambhir has claimed that the entire garbage dump at Ghazipur landfill site will be processed by December 2024, even as the environment committee of Legislative Assembly expressed displeasure over the speed of work. About 3,000 metric tonnes of legacy waste at Ghazipur landfill site is being processed daily. Atishi had pulled up the two municipal …

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