Delhi
Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal Directs Civic Bodies To Make Plan For Managing Fire On Delhi’s Landfill Sites
In a review meeting held in the national capital The Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal ordered round the clock deputation of Environmental Marshalls at landfill sites of Delhi
New Delhi: Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal directed city’s municipal corporations to make plan for management of fire and remediation of sanitary landfill sites in the national capital. Lieutenant Baijal asked Principal Secretary (urban development) Renu Sharma to explore the possibility of issuing order asking authorities concerned to mandatorily use products made from construction and demolition waste.
The Lieutenant Governor also directed Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash to monitor the progress of procurement of mechanical road sweepers, sprinklers by municipal corporations as per their timelines on a weekly basis.
The directions were issued at a meeting chaired by Lieutenant Baijal to review the detailed action plan of agencies and stakeholders on measures to combat air pollution in the city.
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The meeting was attended by Environment Minister Imran Hussain, Anshu Prakash and other senior officers.
Municipal Corporations of Delhi, North Delhi Municipal Corporation and Delhi Cantonment Board (DCB) presented detailed plan to increase municipal solid waste processing capacity to ensure complete disposal of existing waste generation thereby removing gap in processing about 6000 Metric Tonne/day, the Lieutenant Governor office said in a statement.
It stated that local bodies have been asked to submit plan for processing of bio-degradable waste at decentralised locations.
Municipal bodies were also directed to make plan for management of fire and remediation of sanitary landfill sites at Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla. MCDs and PWD were directed to increase C & D (construction and demolition) waste processing capacity from 2500 to 4500 Tonnes Per Day to take care of entire C & D waste generation of Delhi by establishing new plants, the Lieutenant Governor office said.
The statement said that municipal corporations will ensure local water arrangement at landfill sites to control fires.
The Lieutenant Governor directed round the clock deputation of Environmental Marshalls at landfill sites. Barbed wire boundary to be provided at sites, it added.
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