New Delhi: NGT questions why highway authority didn’t lift waste in Ghazipur landfill that killed 2 people

The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday rapped the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for not lifting the segregated waste lying at the Ghazipur landfill site despite specific direction.

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar slammed the NHAI over its slow pace in finalising a tender to draft an agency to carry out the segregation of waste at the landfill site.

“You (NHAI) people do not want to do things seriously.

You have received tenders. As part of the technical bid, you could have asked the bidders to lift the waste, but you just want to buy time. You could have asked anybody to pick up the waste and pay accordingly, but you don’t want to do it,” the bench observed.

The strong comments came in the backdrop of the September 1 incident in which a portion of the 45 metre high garbage dump in east Delhi’s Ghazipur had collapsed due to heavy rains, killing two people and pushing a car and three two- wheelers off the road, into a canal.

The counsel appearing for the NHAI said the department was in the process of receiving tenders and the bids are to be opened on September 21.

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