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more-inLieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal office on Monday issued a statement that work was already under way to address the problem of garbage mounds. ‘A challenging task’A statement issued by Raj Niwas said that the problem of garbage mounds was a “legacy problem of six decades” and multiple issues have made it a “challenging task”. In relation to the Okhla Landfill site, the LG office said that with accumulated garbage of 60 lakh MT the landfill site is spread over 32 acres. The Raj Niwas statement submitted that immediately after assuming office Mr.
Baijal visited all the three landfill sites and Construction and Demolition Waste Plants (C&D Waste) at Burari and Shastri Park. According to the statement, all projects at landfill sites that are under way will be completed by August 2020 and after completion of these three projects, it was expected that no untreated garbage would be dumped at the landfill sites..