AAP alleges MCD of building 16 more landfills; MCD denies
New Delhi: After three overfilled landfill sites, the BJP is now planning to establish 16 more landfill sites across Delhi, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said in a press conference on Thursday. Sisodia said that at present, the BJP is not able to handle three overfilled landfill sites in the Capital and if they will create 16 more such sites, then they will have a severe impact on the lives of the people of Delhi and added, "The kind of threat these sites will pose to the people of Delhi is beyond our imagination. If these landfill sites come up as per BJP's plan, then similar mountains of garbage will be visible all over Delhi."
Sisodia added that Delhi is not the first metropolitan city in the world that is dealing with the issue of garbage, other metropolitans too release huge amounts of garbage "but they have well-planned strategies in place to manage that garbage. Unlike that, in Delhi, BJP-led MCD has this unique way of handling garbage by increasing the number of landfill sites in the Capital. Delhi will be destroyed if this plan of the BJP is implemented."
MCD, refuting the allegations made by AAP, said that they have no plans to set up new sanitary landfill sites at 16 locations in Delhi. The civic body said: "MCD completely denies the allegation and wishes to state in very unambiguous terms that there is no plan to establish any new sanitary landfill sites. In fact, the corporation is working tirelessly to flatten the three existing landfill sites at Bhalswa, Okhla and Ghazipur. The corporation is delighted to share that at a few places, it has reduced the height of garbage mounds by 10-15 metres."
They added that they are leaving no stone unturned to flatten the landfill site, and it has taken slew of measures to reduce the height of landfill sites from deploying trommel machines, offering inert and C&D waste free of cost, sale of refuse driven fuel to industry to co-opting public for segregation of waste at source and discouraging use of single-use plastic. It further stated that 28 colonies became zero-waste colonies and 30 more colonies became 'Harit Mitra'. Many more colonies have joined the efforts to become zero-waste colonies in order to reduce the burden on landfills.
