bandhwari landfill site

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The scope of work includes door-to-door collection of segregated waste and its transportation to the bandhwari landfill site, which serves as the processing location for both clusters

MCG commissioner Pradeep Dahiya said the situation is under control, even as personnel stationed at Bandhwari admitted that conditions remain precarious

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MCG engineers are defending disciplinary action over Bandhwari waste remediation tenders, citing emergency conditions and higher authority directives. They argue the move was crucial to meet NGT deadlines for processing 14 lakh MT of waste, especially after a previous contract termination. The engineers claim proposals were fast-tracked under weekly reviews by the chief secretary.

A fire broke out at the bandhwari landfill site due to methane combustion or sparking caused by stones. Three fire tenders from Udyog Vihar and Bhim Nagar fire stations took over two hours to douse the flames. Excess methane gas in the landfill and sparking caused by stones were identified as potential causes. The villagers expressed their concerns about the pollution caused by such fire incidents and the ongoing issues with leachate flow and health problems. An environmental activist suspected that the fire was deliberately set ahead of an upcoming NGT hearing.

The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) had initiated the selection of firms to treat 10 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste at the Bandhwari landfill. Two tenders were floated, each for 5 lakh MT, aimed to process 2,000 MT daily. The deadline was before the National Green Tribunal’s Sept 3 hearing.

A fire broke out at bandhwari landfill site in Gurugram on Sunday.

With MCG failing to clear legacy waste from bandhwari landfill site within the prescribed timeline, the lack of takers for refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and space constraints due to a faulty design plan have emerged as the major challenges for the civic body. Around 2,000 metric tonnes of waste is dumped daily at Bandhwari.

The MCG is planning to empanel agencies for the transportation of refuse derived fuel (RDF), inert —concrete and sand — and fine material produced after bio-mining the legacy waste at bandhwari landfill site.

The MCG has decided to install 13 CCTV cameras at the bandhwari landfill site. The move, according to officials, has been taken to monitor processing of legacy waste and keep a check on waste management at the site.

With only 10 days left for the contract renewal of 12 trommels deployed at the bandhwari landfill site, MCG is in a fix on how the processing of legacy waste would happen post-March 24.

After three days of rain, puddles of black-viscous liquid – suspected to be leachate – were seen in the Aravalis within a kilometre of the bandhwari landfill site.

Due to space constraint, the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has decided to install a mobile trommel, on a trial basis, at bandhwari landfill site that will help segregate the waste.

With the increasing burden on the bandhwari landfill site, MCG has started looking for around 10 acres of land in the city for fresh dumping and processing of waste.

MCG has sanctioned Rs 2.3 crore to agencies for collecting and transporting waste to the bandhwari landfill site, relocating 58,701 metric tonnes of garbage in July under the SWEEP program. Executive engineer Nijesh Kumar stated these agencies were compensated at Rs 390 per tonne. Additionally, MCG disburses around Rs 3 crore monthly to Ecogreen for waste management in Gurgaon.

To ensure vehicles carrying waste from secondary collection points to the bandhwari landfill site do not have mixed waste, MCG has deployed multi-purpose health workers (MPHW) in shifts at the waste collection points and Bandhwari to keep a check on each vehicle carrying waste.

The nine-member committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has decided that the processing of legacy waste at the bandhwari landfill site should be completed by March 2023.

Granting partial relief to Pali residents, the Supreme Court has directed the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) to maintain status quo until further orders are given on the acquisition of land to set up a waste treatment plant in the village.

After concluding that 100 trees were chopped down near the Bandhwari landfill without permission, the forest department is trying to establish if the MCG encroached into the Aravalis while trying to build a boundary wall for the waste dumping site.

In the past two months, companies processing waste at the bandhwari landfill site have managed to process only around 1 lakh tonnes of legacy waste, according to MCG records. A recent survey has found that there are around 40 to 45 lakh tonnes of legacy waste at Bandhwari.