These sentiments were echoed by residents of Tehkhand, a cluster of some 200 jhuggis immediately next to the Okhla landfill. “This garbage mountain has stood here from before I was born.

In March, MCD operationalised its first engineered landfill at Tehkhand. Here, around 400 tonnes per day of ash generated from WtEs are dumped. But the flattening of the three landfills has lagged.