Overview
- Urban Development Minister Ashish Sood directed immediate installation of six anti-smog guns and 12 sprinklers at Bhalswa and mandated a drone survey with a report due in 10 days.
- The site receives about 4,000 metric tonnes of fresh waste daily, with 800–900 trucks consuming nearly 7,000 litres of diesel and 16 trommel machines adding significant dust.
- Officials report that of roughly 10.929 million metric tonnes of accumulated and fresh waste at Delhi dumpsites, 6.882 million tonnes have been biomined, leaving more than four million tonnes to process.
- An additional 10 acres at Bhalswa have been allocated for a wet-waste facility slated to start operations by December 2025.
- The MCD approved four new waste-processing plants and set targets to stop dumping at legacy sites, aiming to empty Bhalswa by December 2026, Okhla by July 2026 and Ghazipur by 2027.