Summary:
As officials and experts suspected involvement of some miscreants, NMC officials had immediately lodged a complaint with Nandanvan police station. Daily, 1,100 tonnes of city’s garbage is dumped at the site which includes all kind of solid municipal waste. The total volume of piled-up solid municipal waste is believed to be about 18 lakh metric tonnes. “From our side, we increased the manpower of security guards and are also installing three CCTV cameras in the premises of the dumping yard. It is definitely not natural and is either ignited by ragpickers who often throw lit bidi butts or some miscreants who want the garbage to be removed..