Delhi’s first engineered sanitary landfill up and running

The landfill will collect and treat the chemically toxic leachate

How will a thousand flowers bloom again?

The proposed plan to redevelop the Ghazipur flower market by the Delhi government looks good on paper but shopkeepers have a different story to tell. Already in distress due to the pandemic lockdown and scorching summer, they doubt if the authorities will sincerely work to improve their situation

Fire at Ghazipur landfill: Delhi environment minister summons EDMC officials

Rai will also chair a joint meeting of experts on Thursday afternoon to find out a technological solution to the problem of fires at landfill sites.

Footloose in flower land

The wholesale market for flowers at Ghazipur waits eagerly for the festive season, when demand goes up — and for the government to design a new structure that will attract tourists Across the infamous landfill in Ghazipur sits a flower market duly authorised by DDA, on a terrain decorated with scattered debris from the landfill. […]

Politics of garbage

The Ghazipur landfill is a monument of government’s failure to deal with civic issues and of an impending ecological disaster in the capital. The apex court wants the L-G to act and not ‘pass the buck’ This is not new. Multiplicity of agencies are blamed for inaction in Delhi, people in power shun responsibility when […]