MCD clears Singhola site of 800k tonne silt

In a major step toward sustainable waste management, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has successfully completed the biomin-ing of the Singhola silt dumping site along GT Karnal Road, flattening a mound of nearly 800,000 tonnes of waste and freeing up 7.2 acres of land.

- Paras Singh

Senior municipal officials said the Singhola site, located near Khampur village, marks the fourth major biomining project undertaken by MCD after the legacy waste sites at Bhalswa, Okhla, and Ghazipur. Unlike the massive landfill mounds at those locations, Singhola was a smaller but critical site that had become saturated due to the dumping of years of desilting waste from the Capital’s drains.

“This site was allotted to the MCD in 2018 by DDA for dumping silt from east and north Delhi. Subsequently, additional agencies, including PWD and the I&FC, began utilising the site to deposit silt collected during their yearly pre-monsoon drainage cleaning operations. As a result, within five years of the allotment of this site, the land at Khampur village in Singhola ran out of capacity,” said an MCD official.