With over 8,360 tons of trash created daily in Delhi, the city has three trash pile sites at Bhalaswa, Ghazipur and Okhla. And even if they do, where does the waste generated go? It heads for the same landfills and Mountain View, New Delhi. Which brings us to why waste disposal is such a problem in India and why we can’t keep our surroundings clean? In a remarkable explanation -- it is said that Indians are clean but India is dirty. From a distance in the night, you can see trucks loaded with filth scurrying around the hilltop looking for a place to deposit the garbage.In their study "Groundwater Contamination due to Bhalaswa Landfill Site in New Delhi”, Bharat Jhamnani and S. And this statement is so apt and true. At these sites, technically known as landfills, garbage is buried between layers of earth to build up low-lying lands.

 The Bhalaswa landfill is now a mountain of sizeable height and width. Forget the Yamuna and Ganga and cleaning our contaminated and polluted rivers, dont throw away good money after bad, buy concentrate on good waste disposal methodologies and clean the mess that is now called India. The study was undertaken to determine the likely concentrations of principal contaminants in the groundwater over time due to the discharge of such contaminants from landfill leachates to the underlying groundwater. For the ugly and argumentative Indian has been replaced by the Filthy Indian. It’s now a common occurrence. "They never look for cover,” he said, with absolute disgust. Yes, there are hills in the plains. Last January, Delhi’s lieutenant-governor Anil Baijal visited the famed tourist spot and spoke about efficient solid waste management disposal techniques. Nobody seems to care or bother. Nobody has an answer, the Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan is a colossal failure, the nation’s first city is in an appalling state of disrepair.S.

Worse followed when the South Asia correspondent of the New York Times, Gardiner Harris, wrote a scathing piece about how Delhi had become unliveable sometime in 2015, fulminating: "Foreigners have lived in Delhi for centuries, of course, but the air and the mounting research into its effects have become so frightening that some feel it is unethical for those who have a choice to willingly raise children here.The usual public outrage followed, the trolls took over, but the real question of why we are so filthy didn’t bring forth any answers.

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