Over the last three years, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has spent a whopping Rs 275 crore to flatten the three landfills in Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla, but their height has remained almost unchanged during this period, according to data provided by several government agencies to the National Green Tribunal.
These trash towers have now become sites of a tense political battle between the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi and the BJP-led civic agencies ahead of the Delhi municipal polls, with both parties accusing each other of mismanagement or lack of funds. However, when the NGT ordered biomining of legacy waste here in 2019, the tribunal had said it was the civic agencies’ primary responsibility to manage waste.
