Kejriwal says MCD row hit waste clearing at Ghazipur

Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal inspected the Ghazipur landfill site on Friday and found that the garbage processing work at the Capital's largest trash mountain was "unsatisfactory", suggesting that the December 2024 deadline to clear the mound of garbage is likely to be missed

- Alok KN Mishra

Citing the reasons for the delay, Kejriwal said the three companies hired for the work at Ghazipur have been "hostile" towards each other, adding that only hiring two more agencies will speed up the work. However, this cannot be done till the standing committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was constituted, following a pending Supreme Court order on the matter, he said.

The Ghazipur landfill site was the last leg of the CM's visit to the garbage mountains in Delhi. He found the work was "progressively satisfactory" at Bhalswa, and "slow" at the Okhla landfill.

Delhi is sitting on around 27 million tonne of waste across three landfills at Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla.