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A Parliamentary Committee has asked for urgent steps to tackle municipal waste at the Ghazipur landfill in East Delhi and recommended converting the site into a park.
Newsclick.in reports that the Standing Committee on Urban Development has stressed on the need to begin bio mining work at the Ghazipur landfill site to help garbage removal. The output from bio mining of the site would be used in construction plants and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has also agreed to take 5000 metric tonnes of soil from the site for road construction.
The parliamentary panel has also found that out of Rs 5,026 crores worth of funds released for solid waste management in urban areas, the total fund utilisation has been as low as Rs 3,470 crores. States like Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, Haryana, Tripura and Manipur are lagging behind in terms of fund utilisation while Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat have fared well.
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