Aafrin Kidwai 
Representational image by Aafrin Kidwai
The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) is working towards the bio-remediation and reclamation of landfill area at Bandhwari. The site will be cleared at an estimated Rs 16 crore within a month. It will then be used by Ecogreen Energy to set up a Waste to Energy plant, reports The Times of India.
The Bandhwari landfill is spread over 30 acres of land and Ecogreen has been given 10 acres for the WtE plant.
The landfill site is owned by the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) and the site has been used for open dumping of solid waste since 2010.
BANDHWARI SWM PROJECT TIMELINE:
- 2017 – MCG and MCF signed an MoU with Ecogreen, for SWM and setting up of a WtE plant in Bandhwari at a cost of Rs 330 crore.
- 2018 – Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar laid the foundation stone of the plant.
- 2019 – Ecogreen received environmental clearance for the project from the Union ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
- 2020 – The MCG passed a resolution to cancel Ecogreen’s contract citing inefficiency in managing the city’s waste and failure to set up the WtE plant. The resolution, however, was rejected by the Haryana government.
