MCD for recycling of waste at landfill sites
As the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) could not find a place for the construction of a new Solid Landfill Site (SLF) to dump the city’s garbage, the civic body has decided on remediation of waste
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CM sticks to stand on waste-to-energy plant
Though residents of Okhla have been protesting the construction of a waste-to-energy plant in their locality for months, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit confirmed on Wednesday that the project will be completed soon. Dikshit gave her assurance that the plant was being built after procuring all the required environmental clearances, and no health hazards would be caused due to it.
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Pollution level near Okhla waste-to-energy plant 25 times above limit
The process of burning solid waste to convert it to energy at a recycling plant in South Delhi has made the air near the unit 25 times more polluted than the permissible limit, a surprise check of the
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BJP's promise of energy from waste heats up Delhi civic polls
Okhla residents accuse BJP and Congress of trying to poison people by promoting waste incineration to generate electricity. The plant is being put through trial runs. Even as candidates contesting municipal
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Patronising dirty technology
Delhi municipality constructs yet another waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur. Waste-to-energy projects figured in the election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party during the recent civic polls in Delhi.
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Okhla plant not a health hazard: CM
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today assured the resident welfare associations of Okhla that there would be no health hazard due to the waste-to-energy plant being built in the area because only domestic waste would be used to generate power.
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Protest against waste-to-energy plants
Waste pickers along with environmentalists and civil society groups staged a march from Kudeshiya Park to the Lieutenant-Governor's office here protesting against the setting up of three waste-to-energy plants in the city. The protesters said the three incinerator plants at Okhla, Timarpur and Gazipur were being built with complete disregard to the public health concerns of the area residents.
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After 5 yrs, water flows in Govindpuri's JJ cluster
After five dry years, water finally flowed freely from the taps in the JJ cluster at Govindpuri today. The DJB has laid an underground pipe from the nearby Okhla water plant to seven newly installed
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Shut Jindal waste plant: residents
Residents living near the Jindal Group’s waste incineration power plant in Okhla have welcomed Sunday’s Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) show-cause notice to the company and demanded that it be
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Ragpickers oppose waste to energy plants
Say studies have shown that Indian waste is unfit for the purpose. With the fear of losing their means of living looming over them, waste pickers from across the country have opposed Delhi government’s
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Comply with directions or face closure: NGT to Jindal waste
The National Green Tribunal today warned Jindal Urban Infrastructure Ltd (JUIL), a company of Jindal Saw Group Ltd, to ensure its waste disposal plant in Okhla here complies with NGT's directions or faces
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Give back our waste: what the Okhla waste-to-energy plant has done to local wastepickers
Waste-to-Energy (WtE), the process of creating energy from waste, has gained broad appeal domestically and internationally with programs such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) providing funding
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Okhla plant hits hurdle, MCD scraps Jasola route
New Delhi: Delhi government’s prestigious waste-to-energy project at Okhla has hit a roadblock. MCD has turned down the proposal to construct an alternate route to the plant from Kalindi Kunj via Jasola.
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Delhi to have 3 more water treatment plants
The Delhi Jal Board was planning to set up new water treatment plants at Dwarka, Bawana and Okhla, which will add around 80 million gallons per day (mgd) of treatment capacity, Rajya Sabha was
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Waste-based power plant sparks debate
Recent agreement by BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL) to buy half the power generated by the 16 mw municipal solid waste-based power plant being set up by the Timarpur-Okhla Waste Management Company Private Limited (TOWMCL) in Delhi has triggered off a fresh debate on how to dispose off the city
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In the High Court of Delhi WP (Civil) No. 9901 of 2009 in the matter of municipal waste processing plant at Sukhdev Vihar/Okhla
In the High Court of Delhi WP (Civil) No. 9901 of 2009 in the matter of municipal waste processing plant at Sukhdev Vihar/Okhla. Rejoinder filed filed by Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association and others.
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Okhla plant to be used for power supply
It's the age of diversification and Delhi Jal Board is set to come of age. Literally. The board is thinking in terms of power production from the biogas produced in its Okhla plant, to meet the
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New gold rush
India is on a mission to drastically ramp up its solar power production to 22,000 MW by 2022. But it is not so easy & will succeed only with right tariffs & good technology. Read this special report by Down To Earth on the technology, cost & operational challenges. <br />
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Now, garbage to produce electricity, cooking gas
New Delhi: At its new landfill sites, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi plans to generate electricity, cooking gas, organic manure and bricks from the waste generated in the city. To come up at Okhla and Timarpur, the landfill sites will have a waste treatment plant for which the corporation is likely to join hands with the East Delhi Waste Processing Company Private Limited (EDWPCL).
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Spend a day at our homes; feel the pollution level yourself
Many protests, agitations and petitions later, the residents of Sukhdev Vihar – one of the most densely-populated residential colonies located next to the Okhla-Timarpur waste-to-energy incinerator – have a unique proposition for Delhi environment officials and politicians: “Come spend a day at our homes”. “Every single environment official and politician claims that all is well at Sukhdev Vihar. How can they certify this when the residents here have consistently been telling them about the pollution levels because of the plant, the bio-medical waste incinerator and the compost plant. Together these plants have polluted the ground water, poisoned the air and forced us to live with constant noise pollution,” says Asha Arora, an area resident.