Delhi BJP President, Adesh Gupta, Member of Parliament, Meenakshi Lekhi and North Delhi Mayor, Jai Prakash inaugurated the Material Recovery Facility Centre for solid waste management under Zakhira flyover. On the occasion Standing Committee Chairman, Chhail Bihari Goswami, Leader of House, Yogesh Verma, former Chairman Standing Committee, Veena Virmani, Councillors, Vipin Malhotra, Sunita Mishra, Former MLA, Subhash Sachdeva, Former Councillor, Bharat Bhushan Madan and other dignitaries were present.
On the occasion, Gupta said that in the adverse conditions North Delhi Municipal Corporation is providing every possible facility to the citizens. He said that this facility centre would help North DMC in solid waste management.
Prakash said that this is first of its kind semi-automated waste management system in Delhi. He said that this centre would be operated by Chintan (NGO). Material Recovery Facility center has state of the art machineries which can process upto eight tons of waste per day. This socio-technological model for segregation and recycling aims at developing solid waste management infrastructure for North DMC in a scientific manner in pursuance of the Swachh Bharat Mission and the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016.
Founder-Director, Chintan (NGO), Bharati Chaturvedi said, “We will work with the North DMC to reduce the waste going to the Bhalsawa landfill.”
