Delhi Govt Firm On Waste To Energy Plants At Timarpur-Okhla, Ghazipur
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 4,
April 2011
The residents and ragpickers were up in arms against the projects, while the Union minister had requested the Delhi government to reconsider the location of these plants.
But, the Dikshit government filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court just a couple of days after Ramesh visited the project site at Okhla and said: "The Timarpur-Okhla project would utilise 2,050 tonnes per day of municipal waste to generate over 16 MW of green electricity and is expected to be complete by this year."
The affidavit was filed by counsel Wasim A Qadri before a Bench headed by Justice D K Jain, which was hearing amicus curiae Ranjit Kumar about the looming power shortage in the capital during the coming summer days. Read the full report here.
Source: Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN, New Delhi.
