The Delhi Lt Governor said "not a single" new dumping site is planned in the city. (File)
Amid AAP's allegations that the MCD is planning new garbage dumping sites in the city while failing to clear "mountains" of filth at the existing three landfills, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Saturday asked the civic body to take strict legal action against "elements" misleading people.
In a series of tweets, Mr Saxena said the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has cleared 26.1 lakh metric ton of legacy waste in last four months and height of garbage mounds came down by 10-15 metres. He also said "not a single" new dumping site is planned in the city.
Ahead of the civic polls expected in December, the AAP has intensified its attacks on the civic body and the BJP over "lack of sanitation" in Delhi and "garbage mountains" at landfill sites in Bhalaswa, Okhla and Ghazipur.
AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday visited the Ghazipur landfill site and claimed that the MCD was planning to develop 16 more landfill sites in the city.
"Contrary to false claims by some people with partisan vested interests, NOT A SINGLE NEW DUMPING SITE IS PLANNED by MCD in the City," LG Saxena tweeted.
"Have instructed MCD to take strict legal action against elements who mislead Delhi," the Lt Governor said in another tweet.
The MCD on Friday said there was no plan to create any new landfill sites in the city. It also said that 77 lakh metric ton legacy waste has been processed so far from the city's three landfills, which have assumed the size of small mountains over the years.
The politics over garbage and its management has become focal point in AAP's attack on the BJP that ruled since 2007 the erstwhile three municipal corporations that have now been unified into MCD.
The polls for 250 MCD wards are expected around December and Delhi State Election Commission has geared up preparations for it.
Delhi generates around 11,000 metric tons of garbage, a significant part of which is dumped in the three landfill sites at Ghazipur, Bhalswa, and Okhla.
The cumulative capacity of waste processing in the city at present is 8,213 tons per day that means a significant part of garbage generated daily is left unattended during collection and it's further management.
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