“ Danda leke bhagaya bhi hai, raat bhar gaadiyaan lagti hai yahan par ! (We have even chased them away with sticks… vehicles are parked here all night),” said Kartar Mavi, a resident of a locality in South East Delhi’s Okhla Phase 1. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO
He was referring to the large piles of construction and demolition (C&D) waste piled up in front his house at Gola Kuan Camp Tehkhand village at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD)-designated dhalaon (garbage collection point), meant for municipal waste.
“This waste is dumped by private vehicles. I don’t know where they come from. You see my car, it gets all dusty within a few hours… There is too much pollution here,” he added.
Earlier this month, Sunil Kumar (30), another resident from the area, filed a complaint on