One by one, NGT denying nod to DDA landfill sites
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) was left in a lurch after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday rejected the Ghonda-Gurjar site allotted to it by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for using it as a landfill. The site located on the Yamuna flood plains cannot be used for dumping the city’s waste, as it can further pollute the river.
The East Corporation officials had a meeting with the principal committee of the court seeking an NOC over the allotted site.
“The NOC was rejected on the site by the NGT for being on Yamuna river bed. They said waste cannot be dumped here, as it would contaminate the water. For the time being we are dumping waste at a site close to Ghazipur only,” EDMC mayor Neema Bhagat told DNA.
The Corporation seems to have run out of options to dump its 2,200 to 3,000 metric tonnes (MT) waste every day, as even the Ranikhera site on Delhi-Haryana border allocated for the purpose by the AAP government has run into trouble with residents protesting the move.
The DDA had allotted 150 acres of land in Ghonda-Gurjar to the civic body earlier this month pending the environment clearance.
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