Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Thursday inspected ongoing bio-mining operations at the Okhla landfill site, declaring that the city’s towering “garbage mountains” will be completely ...

One of the largest landfills in the country, it is also called the "garbage mountain of Delhi". Image: Dr Arshad Khan and a patient. He has been practicing near the garbage mountain for 14 years A ...

“Our ultimate aim is to ensure that no new garbage mountains are formed,” he added. Local neighbourhoods around the Bhalswa landfill are home to thousands of Delhi’s poorest residents who ...

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi deploys drones every three months to monitor the size of the trash mountain and is experimenting with ways to extract methane from it, the report said.

The Bhalswa waste mountain in the capital's northern outskirts has long been an eyesore and a public health hazard. Delhi's new government says it's confident it can clean it up. https://p.dw.com ...

If the AAP comes to power in the MCD, "all mountains of garbage in Delhi will disappear in five years. We have a plan," Sisodia said when asked about a timeline.

The pace of biomining work has picked up, around 7,000 to 8,000 metric tonnes of waste would be processed daily in the next six months, he added. PTI Last Updated : 17 April 2025, 11:02 IST ...

(PTI) According to data shared by the civic body on January 18, and seen by HT, 159 fires tore through Delhi’s three garbage mountains – in Ghazipur, Bhalswa, and Okhla – in 2017. This ...

“During 15-year rule in civic bodies, BJP has given three garbage mountains to Delhi. Due to these landfill sites, people living in the surrounding areas have been undergoing health problem ...

One of the largest landfills in the country, it is also called the "garbage mountain of Delhi". A monstrosity, an eyesore - ...