Gautam asks for IMC help to clear Delhi’s Gazipur landfill

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Gautam asks for IMC help to clear Delhi’s Gazipur landfill

Saturday, 24 August 2019 | Staff Reporter | Bhopal

Cricketer-turned-Member of Parliament Gautam Gambhir, the East Delhi MP of the BJP has invited Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) Commissioner Ashish Singh to help out with his expertise in clearing the Gazipur landfill site which has been in the news for being the tallest garbage mountain in the country.

Notably, Indore city has bagged the status of cleanest city of the country two times in a row. The IMC officials would soon be seen to extend a helping hand to New Delhi in solving a garbage mess in Gazipur area of East Delhi.

Taking up the area of more than 40 football pitches, Ghazipur rises by nearly 10 metres per year with no end in sight to its reeking growth. According to official records, it was already more than 65 metres (213 feet) high this year.

Concerned about safety of the passing jets, the Supreme Court last year had ordered installation of alert lights on the dumping site to caution passing jets.

However, Gambhir’s invitation to IMC commissioner has a similar background attached to the story.

The city till recently had 100-acre reeking landfill site which had tonnes of plastic, organic and metal waste in Devguradia area. The corporation had cleared 2 lakh metric tonnes of waste form the landfill in two years when young IAS officer Ashish Singh took over in year 2018.

Through techniques like bio-remediation or bio mining the corporation managed to segregate soil and recyclable substances like plastic, metal, paper, cloth and other solid materials from the landfill site. After the bio-remediation was undertaken on war footing, the process got completed for 13 lakh tonne of waste in December 2018.

The recyclable materials were disposed properly as polythene was sent to cement plants and also for road construction. The soil recovered from the landfill was used for refilling the ground on the same site where greenery is being developed.

This was much quicker and much cost effective than conventional methods which required five-years time and around Rs 65 crore budget, said an officer of the IMC. The corporation now plans a city forest on 90-acre and a garden on ten acre cleansed land.

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