Chandigarh, June 6 -- Even as the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) had assured the Punjab and Haryana high court of clearing out the Dadumajra dump completely by May 31 this year, 1 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of legacy waste still remains at the landfill, which it now aims to remove by July.

After missing repeated deadlines, MC had completed the bio-remediation of two mountains of legacy waste at Dadumajra landfill in February this year, and had started the work to process the remaining freshly dumped waste, holding a massive 1.25 LMT of waste.

Amid Chandigarh's turbulent waste management journey, two legacy waste mountains of 5 LMT and 8 LMT came up in Dadumajra over the past few decades due to inadequate garbage processing faciliti...