Locals living next to Ghazipur landfill have not had it easy. On the evening of April 21, a major fire erupted at east Delhi's Ghazipur landfill. Exactly two years ago, there was another fire at the same spot. Here’s a look at an asphyxiating reality of a city that refuses to learn
This firsthand account was carried in April 2022. Two years later, not much has changed.
On the evening of March 28, 2022, our ninth-floor apartment in Indirapuram near East Delhi started filling up with smoke. That is not the first time it has happened but since the air quality index has been hovering in the ‘poor’ category — read: ‘as good as it can get’ by Delhi NCR standards — it took a minute to figure out that the culprit was the landfill nearby.
You know the one that’s been famously compared to the Taj Mahal, the Qutub Minar, and even Mt Everest (the latter by some fellow journalists who clearly think a difference of some 8,000-odd metres is nothing to worry about).
On the evening of March 28, 2022, our ninth-floor apartment in Indirapuram near East Delhi started filling up with smoke. That is not the first time it has happened but since the air quality index has been hovering in the ‘poor’ category — read: ‘as good as it can get’ by Delhi NCR standards — it took a minute to figure out that the culprit was the landfill nearby.
You know the one that’s been famously compared to the Taj Mahal, the Qutub Minar, and even Mt Everest (the latter by some fellow journalists who clearly think a difference of some 8,000-odd metres is nothing to worry about).