New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday visited the Okhla landfill website and mentioned the goal is to clear town of all three mountains of rubbish by December 2024. Kejriwal, throughout his go to to the positioning in south Delhi, was accompanied by his cupboard colleague Kailash Gahlot, Mayor Shelly Oberoi, and Municipal Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti.
The monstrous Okhla landfill was commissioned within the Nineteen Nineties and it reached its saturation level a number of years in the past. The Okhla landfill website comprises about 40 lakh MT of legacy waste in it. In the previous few years, about 20-25 lakh MT have been faraway from it, however about 40 lakh MT nonetheless stays in it, Kejriwal advised reporters on the website.
“The scheduled set target to remove this mountain of garbage is by May 2024. But, all officers and engineers are working on it, and our target is to try to remove it by December 2023, instead of May next year,” he mentioned.
There is quite a lot of capability for biomining right here (about 17,000 MT), however the capability to take away waste from the landfill and dispose it’s much less, the chief minister mentioned. Its present each day disposal capability is 4,000-4,500 MT. But, by April 1, “we will augment it to 10,000 MT daily”, he added.
Kejriwal mentioned he’ll go to the Okhla landfill website once more to hold out an inspection on April 1.
“And, by June, we expect to augment it further to 15,000 MT daily disposal capacity. If we go by 15,000 MT capacity, then by December-January, we will reach out target of cleaning this (Okhla) site by December-January, and local residents will also get relief,” he mentioned.
Similarly, work is underway at Ghazipur and Bhalswa landfill websites, and after we will go to there within the subsequent couple of days, we’ll take inventory of the state of affairs there too, he mentioned.
Asked when will Delhi develop into free of those landfill websites, he mentioned, “One will be cleared by May, and another one six months later.”
So, December subsequent yr, that’s our goal, he added. Speaking to PTI, Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot famous that the AAP authorities is hopeful that Delhi will probably be free from all of the landfill websites by December 2024.
On the Okhla landfill website, he mentioned, “We are hopeful of achieving the daily disposal rate of 10,000 MT by April, and 15,000 MT by June.” The minister additionally spoke on the upcoming Delhi price range.
“The budget will be on time. We are having a series of meetings, and very soon we will finalise the budget. Delhi will get it on time,” he mentioned.
Talking concerning the options as soon as the landfill websites are cleared, Kejriwal mentioned waste-to-energy crops and biomethanation crops will assist in the disposal of waste. However, he didn’t elaborate on it, extra so when Delhi generates an enormous quantity of waste each day.
The metropolis cumulatively generates round 11,400 metric tonnes of rubbish, out of which practically 6,200 metric tonnes is dumped at three landfills, that’s, Ghazipur, Okhla, and Bhalaswa, civic officers had mentioned in 2021.
Kejriwal mentioned a plan is to make a giant C&D (development and demolition) waste plant to make bricks, and a biomethanation plant, after the Okhla landfill website is cleared.
Asked concerning the stalling of the election of the standing committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, which is affecting civic work, he mentioned, “Work will go on, do not worry.”
