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more-inThe blaze at Ghazipur landfill in east Delhi was extinguished in the early hours of Sunday after over seven hours of fire-fighting operations. The 45-metre high Ghazipur landfill was shut down following an order by Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal after a portion of the landfill collapsed, killing people. The East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Sunday said it has set the ball rolling for setting up a waste—to—energy plant of 2,000 metric tonnes capacity at Ghazipur landfill site. However, when the blaze started at Ghazipur landfill on Saturday evening, only one fire tender was stationed at the spot. The landfill site was saturated in 2002, and the civic body has been “looking for an alternative site for a long time, but a clearance from the NGT is needed”..