Forgotten hotspots: Areas close to waste-to-energy plants have Delhi’s worst air; Okhla, Ghazipur worst hit
NEW DELHI: Residents living around the capital’s waste-to-energy (WTE) plants at Okhla, Narela-Bawana, Ghazipur and Tehkhand are among the worst hit by pollution as Delhi gasps under a shroud of very poor air.
People in these neighbourhoods say the air is foul all year, and the situation is unbearable in winter, especially when the plants, burning about 8,000 MT of poorly segregated solid waste every day, emit spurious gases and particulate pollutants so close to residential areas.
