'Earlier MCD Was Known For Corruption': Kejriwal Inaugurates 'India's Biggest' C&D Plant

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated a construction and demolition plant in Burari with the capacity to process 2,000 tonnes of debris.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal inaugurates construction and demolition plant in Burari ( Image Source :PTI )

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday inaugurated what he called “India’s largest” construction and demolition plant in the city's Burari area. The plant has a capacity of 2,000 metric tonnes which will manufacture bricks and tiles with the help of debris, he added. Kejriwal said that Delhi produces around 6,500 tonnes of debris out of which 5,000 tonnes will be processed in this plant and another is being set up in Okhla which will process the remaining 1,000 tonnes. 

"I am very happy as today in Burari the C&D plant has been inaugurated with a capacity of 2000 metric tonnes... In this plant with the help of debris, bricks and tiles will be made...This is India's biggest plant,” said Kejriwal while speaking to reporters. 

He said that all the debris that is produced in the city will start getting processed in the next one and a half years.

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The Burari C&D plant is the fourth waste plant of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi which would cater to six zones including Civil Lines, Paharganj, Karol Bagh, and to the sites belonging to the government agencies and residents of the area according to a Times of India report.

The government agencies could drop the waste for processing after paying the processing charges while private players would be able to use the facility after paying the transport and processing charges from their houses, said an official quoted by the TOI as saying. 

The other three C&D plants are at Shastri Park with a capacity of 1,000 tonnes per day and another at Bakkarwala also processes 1,000 tonnes per day. A third C&D plant at Ranikhera has a capacity to process 1,500 tonnes of debris per day.