Waste from Delhi's Bhalswa landfill site 'falls' on nearby houses, police say teams checking claim

A small portion of waste from the Bhalswa landfill fell onto adjacent houses near the Sharadhanand Colony in Delhi's outer north district on Sunday, locals claimed but police said teams were checking "if any such incident took place". No emergency calls were made to the Delhi Fire Services or the Delhi Police regarding any rescue operations and no one suffered any injury, the police said.

"We got to know that some political leader visited the site. We are checking videos on social media to check if any incident took place. There was no PCR call. Teams are checking the entire matter," a senior police officer said.

Locals claimed the incident occurred around 11:30 am when waste from the landfill slid and fell onto nearby houses but no one suffered any injury.


Upon hearing about the alleged incident, the Congress' Delhi chief Devender Yadav visited the site.

"AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, who made a big issue of landfill mountains and accumulated waste before the MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) elections, claiming he would remove them when AAP came to power, has terribly let down people living near the landfill," he said.

"The collapse of a portion of the Bhalswa landfill in the Badli assembly segment has not only damaged many houses but injured two kids," he alleged.

Yadav is the Congress' candidate from the Badli seat for the February 5 Delhi Assembly election. The landfill falls under the constituency.

Around 5,000 people living near the landfill face constant threat of falling debris causing injury to residents and damage to houses, Yadav said.

He asked officials to take urgent steps to control the falling debris as more houses were under threat.

Before the 2022 MCD polls, Kejriwal used to shout that "Kejriwal ki sarkar - Kejriwal ka parshad" would make drastic improvement in waste management and flatten the three landfills, the Congress leader alleged.

During the past two years, the landfills have only risen in height, posing danger to people living nearby, he said.

An MCD official said there was no collapse at the landfill.

A portion of fresh waste slipped down from a height of approximately 24 feet during levelling/stabilisation, the official said.

No one was trapped and casualty occurred as it happened within the landfill's boundary, they said and added the waste that slipped portion had been levelled.

Other officials are at the site.