The office also said that the landfill site in Ghazipur will be cleared out in the next two years. PTI photo.
A day after the collapse of garbage from a 45-meter high landfill hill swept away vehicles on an adjacent road killing two persons in East Delhi, dumping of garbage has been banned at the site with immediate effect.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal issued the ban orders at a meeting of senior officials from civic administration and National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to review the situation in the aftermath of Friday's incident that killed two and injured five others.
At the meeting, NHAI officials said they would start lifting the garbage from the landfill site from November and use it to build highways.
As a safety measure, Baijal also directed the traffic police to divert vehicles plying on the road parallel to the landfill site on alternate routes.
“The L-G directed that no more dumping of solid waste and any other kind of silt would take place at the Ghazipur landfill site. The East MCD (Municipal Corporation of East Delhi) would be sending its collected dump to another alternative site immediately,” an official statement said on Sunday.
The Ghazipur landfill is the oldest of the four such sites in the capital and the collected waste had reached a height 45 metre, almost as high as a 15-storey building.
Hundreds of tonnes of waste collapsed under its own weight on Friday afternoon and swept away vehicles plying on the parallel road that connects east Delhi to suburban Noida. The huge mound of garbage swept a car and three two wheelers into the Hindon river canal that runs alongside the road.
Around 2500 tonnes of garbage collected from across east Delhi is dumped at the landfill site everyday.