Delhi has 27.6 tonnes of waste across the landfills from 28 million tonnes 34 million ago,to get to an progressive ₹250 crore programme to clear the land fills.There are 3 landfill sites namely Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla. Bhalswa landfill site was commissioned in the year 1994, Ghazipur in 1984 and Okhla in 1996.
On an average 5,315 tonnes of garbage has been cleared every day in last 34 months.In addiction to more garbage,it would atleast take 197 years to clear the garbage, 5.5 million tonnes of waste has been cleared in the 34 month period,the aim is to clear legacy waste while ignoring the mountain of new waste,it would still 14 years.The cost of the project was ₹1,864 crore as per official estimate submitted by the MCD to the union ministry of housing and urban affairs.
PM modi spoke about the Ghazipur landfill which is one of the largest dumps in India.Modi said,the subject of clearing these huge mounds of garbage from cities, there is one such mountain of garbage in Delhi too and other cities too.It has been sitting there for years, waiting to be removed.While launching the second phase of government’s flagship programme, Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid emphasis on wiping out the “mountains of garbage” from India’s cities by processing all legacy waste.
Urban affairs minister Hardeep Puri, who was also at the event, was seen nodding in agreement as the PM spoke.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 eight shorter than the Qutub Minar — the Ghazipur landfill was established in 1984 and reached capacity in 2002. But the city’s waste continued to be dumped there even after that. The result 70-acre landfill now holds more than 14 million tonnes of legacy waste, said municipal officials. According to the latest reports if we work on clearing the old garabage mountain and ignore the new waste which is added,it would still take years to clear the garabage.
