MCG zeroes in on landfill site at Nuh

Gurgaon: MCG has submitted its reply to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) about its plan to clear legacy waste from Bandhwari treatment plant. The civic body has also submitted that an alternative site was initially identified in Basai and then Farrukh Nagar. However, after objections were raised, the plan to dump fresh waste at these sites was dropped. Now, the civic body has identified another site in Nuh.
“We were told that the next hearing is scheduled for September 30. We had to tell NGT about our plan. We have so far installed seven trommels at Bandhwari. This is for legacy waste. For fresh waste, we have submitted that we had identified a site in Basai and another in Farrukh Nagar, which could not be finalised due to the objections raised by residents. Now, we have identified a site in Nuh,” said Mahabir Prasad, additional commissioner-3, MCG.
NGT had issued directions to MCG in November 2019 to clear 25 lakh tonne of legacy waste from Bandhwari in six months. It had earlier observed that there was a need to prepare an action plan to clear the legacy waste from the landfill in the shortest possible period. Following this, the corporation officials visited the site and started looking for an alternative. The civic body had instructed Ecogreen, the corporation’s concessionaire for waste management, to install trommel machines for processing fresh and legacy waste at Bandhwari.