More than 364,000 tonnes of garbage from the Ghazipur and Okhla landfills will be used in the construction of Urban Extension Road (UER) 2, the third ring road of the Capital.
According to a senior civic official, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to provide it 364,000 tonnes of inert material for the UER2 project, which will be developed in two phases called package 3 and package 4.
“As much as 300,000 tonnes of inert material is sought for package 3 while 64,000 tonnes of inert will be used for package 4 of the project,” the MCD official said.
