This story is from August 22, 2019

East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir invites Indore official for landfill lessons

Responding to an online petition, East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir has invited the municipal commissioner of Indore for a knowledge-sharing session with East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) officials. A petition was started recently on Change.org to get the “Mount Everest of garbage dumps in Ghazipur” cleared.
East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir invites Indore official for landfill lessons
Gautam Gambhir
NEW DELHI: Responding to an online petition, East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir has invited the municipal commissioner of Indore for a knowledge-sharing session with East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) officials. A petition was started recently on Change.org to get the “Mount Everest of garbage dumps in Ghazipur” cleared.
“As the member of Parliament from East Delhi, I wish to convey to them ( petitioners Seema Mishra and Parul Mathur) as well as the 1.7 crore users of Change.org India that this issue is a top priority for me, and that's why I decided to address the Ghazipur landfill issue in my maiden Parliament speech.
I have therefore taken note of the suggestions made in this online petition and invited Asheesh Singh, IAS, the municipal commissioner of Indore, to conduct a knowledge-sharing session for East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) staff,” Gambhir, who has launched a verified decision maker profile on Change.org, stated in a post.

Indore is a success story in solid waste management. Authorities there had recently turned a landfill, which was spread across 65 acres, into a city forest.
“With Swachh Bharat on my mind, I have already met EDMC commissioner Dilraj Kaur. I have been assured complete cooperation in addressing this civic issue to make you proud of your capital city,” Gambhir added. As part of his vision statement, he had promised to turn Ghazipur into a green space.
Commissioned in 1984, the landfill covers an area of over 29 acres. In 2017, a portion of it collapsed, killing two persons and injuring five others. A car, a scooter and two motorcycles were also swept into a canal by the momentum of the hurtling garbage and slush. The permissible height for a garbage dump is 20 metre, while Ghazipur stands tall at 65 metre. Every day, nearly 2,100 metric tonnes of garbage is still dumped at this site.

Earlier, in July, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had directed the Delhi government and municipal corporations to deposit Rs 250 crore to facilitate removal of waste from the landfill sites in the national capital. Over 28 million tonnes of waste is piled up at Ghazipur, Bhalaswa and Okhla landfill sites.
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