The local commissioner appointed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to oversee investigations into pollution caused by the municipal waste incinerator at Okhla in south Delhi has submitted a report which says that ash from the plant can be “truly hazardous”.

Air quality near the municipal waste incinerator in Sukhdev Vihar in south Delhi is life threatening, claim residents after they got air samples tested by an independent agency. Residents say the levels of fine particulate pollution around the incinerator would have “triggered a health warning of emergency conditions” had it been in the US. 

Some valuable jewelry was saved from incineration thanks to an Inver Grove Heights trash hauler.

Residents of Sukhdev Vihar, who are opposing the Okhla waste to energy plant near the residential locality in South Delhi, are dissatisfied with the inspection being carried out at the plant under the direction of the  National Green Tribunal (NGT). The tribunal appointed an advocate as a local commissioner last week to carry out inspections at the plant after the residents had objected to the way in which a tribunal-appointed committee had carried out an earlier inspection.