India, Jan. 30 -- After the Maharashtra government's demand that the BMC carry out biomining of the solid waste in the Deonar dumping yard and hand over the freed plot to rehabilitate Dharavi residents, the BMC's head honchos held a meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the issue. They arrived at the conclusion that the biomining would cost them Rs.2,500 crore, besides which it would take at least 12 to 14 years to complete.

Officers from the BMC's solid waste management (SWM) department also told municipal commissioner Bhushan Gagrani that it was not possible to carry out the biomining, as there was no space in the city to dump the byproducts generated from it. Biomining of solid waste is a process that involves the excavation, tr...