Aafrin Kidwai 
Video footage of the collapsed landfill shared by the NGO, Chintan
Gurugram will soon begin diverting its waste from Bandhwari to Farrukhnagar landfill. Vinay Pratap Singh, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) announced that 1,100 TPD waste produced by the city will be dumped and processed at Farrukhnagar during the next year.
The transition will take place in a staggered manner as initially, the MCG is likely to use both the facilities. “After two weeks, as MCG officials get accustomed to the new facility, we will stop dumping the waste at the Bandhwari landfill,” Singh told Hindustan Times.
Earlier this year, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had set a late-2020 deadline for the MCG to treat 28 lakh tonnes of legacy waste, accumulated over the past 12 years, at the Bandhwari plant. “The NGT had asked the civic body to bio-remediate the entire legacy waste at Bandhwari plant by the end of this year. However, this target was set before the national lockdown came into effect and, consequently, the machinery for processing the legacy waste got delayed. As such, an alternative site for dumping fresh waste had to be found by both the MCG and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF),” said Singh.
Another reason prompting MCG to look for an alternative site was to escape an environmental penalty being imposed by the NGT if no solution was found to the Bandhwari legacy waste, senior MCG officials have reportedly said.
