July 12, 2018 7:43 PM

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SC slams LG for inaction in clearing 'mountains of garbage' in Delhi

<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Supreme Court today pulled up the Delhi Lieutenant Governor for doing nothing to get the mountains of garbage of the city cleared.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Terming the situation in Delhi as absolutely bizarre, the top court referred to the mountains of garbage at three landfill sites in Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa, and said there is a 65-metre mound at Ghazipur, only eight metre less than Qutub Minar.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta also questioned the attitude of the LG and said no official from his office had bothered to attend a meeting chaired by the Delhi's health minister on the issue of solid waste management. </div>

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