New Delhi, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday laid the foundation stone for waste processing facilities at Okhla, Ghazipur and Singhola landfill sites, saying the government reclaimed 100 acres of land from the city’s three landfill sites in the last one-and-a-half years.
Gupta said around 3,000-4,000 metric tonnes of waste reached the site daily and the new fresh waste processing unit would ensure it was processed regularly.
Speaking to reporters after the ceremony at Okhla, Gupta said the government was working on two fronts – clearing legacy waste from existing landfill sites and ensuring that fresh waste generated every day was processed without piling up. “Today, at Okhla, we have processed almost all the legacy waste that was there before January 2025,” she said. “Our government is fighting on both fronts, to finish the old mountains and to ensure that no new garbage mountain is created in the future,” she said. She said the government was working towards reducing the existing garbage mountains to zero. “People are seeing that the garbage mountains are continuously shrinking and soon a time will come when they will become zero,” Gupta said. On pollution, Gupta said the government was working on several fronts, including landfill waste, Yamuna cleaning, dust mitigation, plantation, road infrastructure and waste management.
