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Waste chokes Munak Canal stretch
The Morning Standard
|September 23, 2025
Govt to rope in contractor in first phase of cleanup to transfer 48,782 metric tonnes of garbage
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YEARS of neglect have left the Munak Canal banks buried under mountains of silt and trash, with officials estimating nearly 500,000 metric tonnes of garbage piled up along a 25-kilometre stretch in Delhi.
The Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC) Department has now moved to tackle the problem by engaging a contractor for the first phase of cleanup.
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