Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will visit all three landfill sites in Delhi in the coming week to inspect waste-processing work being undertaken there, Mayor Shelly Oberoi said on Friday.
Addressing a press conference at the Civic Centre here, she also said the effort of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi now is to ensure fresh waste does not have to be sent to landfill sites.
In response to a query, she said the MCD’s efforts are to take a “positive approach” to carrying out cleanliness and sanitation work in the city, but in the long run, if anyone does not cooperate and litters any public place, then penal action could also be taken.
There are three landfill sites in Delhi, located at Okhla, Bhalaswa, and Ghazipur.
On the landfill sites, she said, “At Bhalswa, we have deployed the best technology, and whether it is the Delhi government or the MCD, we are making efforts to mitigate pollution”.
In the coming week, “the CM and we all will be going to inspect all three landfill sites,” she said.
The mayor told reporters that the MCD’s aim is to remove all ‘dhalao’ (dump yards) of Delhi.
A civic official said 158 “fresh garbage vulnerable points” have been identified across the 12 zones of the MCD under the ‘Ab Dilli Hogi Saaf’ campaign, and the target is to clean these spots by the first week of October.Garbage-vulnerable points are spots where trash is regularly dumped illegally.
