New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday expressed confidence that the legacy waste at the Okhla and Bhalaswa landfill sites will be cleared by the end of this year.

In an interview with ANI, the Chief Minister said that that the BJP government has ramped up bio-mining capacity to over 30,000 metric tonnes daily.

She said the legacy waste at the Ghazipur landfill site will take about two years to be cleared.

"I want to tell people of Delhi that by the end of 2026, we will end the legacy waste of two garbage mountains in Okhla and Bhalaswa. The Ghazipur landfill site might take two more years. We are building plants so that as much of the generated waste is processed. We are working by segregating the legacy was...