Overview
- The Lieutenant Governor, who chaired an MCD review on Monday, directed officials to examine and pilot the Indore municipal waste model and sent a high-level MCD delegation to Indore for a two-day study visit beginning Tuesday.
- Officials told the LG that roughly half of Delhi’s daily waste is not segregated at source and nearly 50% of the city’s garbage still reaches Ghazipur, Bhalswa or Okhla landfills, prompting a warning that fresh inflows could negate ongoing biomining and remediation work.
- MCD and the Department of Environment Management Services are drafting a three-tier public-awareness campaign and a phased roadmap under the SWM Rules, 2026, that aims to raise segregation from about 60% toward 100% by January 2027 through ward-wise pilots.
- Key operational decisions — the pilot zone, timeline, cost, and detailed implementation plan — have not been announced, and officials face practical challenges including processing capacity, preventing mixing after collection, vehicle routing, and enforcement.
- Indore’s model relies on strict household segregation, door-to-door collection with compartmentalised vehicles, route monitoring, material recovery facilities, composting and bio-CNG; success in Delhi will require scaling those systems, sustained behaviour change and robust monitoring to keep daily processing in step with inflows.