Delhi to get Rs 700 cr out of central funds for roads' facelift

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government will get Rs 700 crore out of the central road fund for the construction, repair, maintenance and beautification of roads.
This was announced at a meeting between Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari and Delhi lieutenant governor VK Saxena, ANI reported.
On a request by Delhi LG that the NHAI lift and use the inert waste gathered at three landfill sites in Delhi, over and above the 20 lakh tonnes that it had already committed to use, Gadkari directed the NHAI to use the entire inert waste for road construction.
Engineering landfill site
Earlier, PTI had reported that a piece of land in south Delhi's Tehkhand area has been allocated to the MCD for an engineering landfill site and the project is expected to be completed by April 2023.
Delhi has three sanitary landfill sites located at Ghazipur, Okhla, and Bhalswa.
This proposed "engineering landfill site" will be city's first such site, they said.
In an engineering landfill site, the soil is first scientifically prepared so that the leachate does not percolate into the soil, which is not the case in a conventional landfill site, a former senior official of the MCD said.
A piece of land measuring 47.346 acres has been allocated by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for a landfill site in Tehkhand area near Okhla, out of which 32.346 acres will be used for setting up an engineering landfill site, work of which is expected to be completed by April 2023, reads the budget speech.
The current three landfill sites in Delhi are spread over an area of 202 acres in total.