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Supreme Court - Daily Orders

M.C. Mehta vs Union Of India on 2 May, 2025

Author: Abhay S. Oka

Bench: Abhay S. Oka

     ITEM NO.62                         COURT NO.4                 SECTION PIL-W

                              S U P R E M E C O U R T O F      I N D I A
                                      RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

                            WRIT PETITION(S)(CIVIL)   NO(S).   13029/1985

     M.C. MEHTA                                                      Petitioner(s)

                                                VERSUS

     UNION OF INDIA & ORS.                                           Respondent(s)

     IN RE: GURGAON LANDFILL BURNING ISSUE (HARYANA) NAME OF THE
     FOLLOWING ADVOCATES MAY BE TREATED TO HAVE BEEN SHOWN IN THE LIST:
     MR. HARISH N. SALVE, SR. ADVOCATE (A.C.) MS. APARAJITA SINGH, SR.
     ADVOCATE (A.C.) MS. UTTARA BABBAR, SR. ADVOCATE (A.C.) MR. A.D.N.
     RAO, SR. ADVOCATE (A.C.) MS. SHIBANI GHOSH, ADVOCATE (A.C.) MR.
     SIDDHARTHA CHOWDHURY, ADVOCATE (A.C.) MR. G.S. MAKKER, MR. AMRISH
     KUMAR, MR. M.K. MARORIA, MR. SANJAY KR. VISEN, MR. SUDEEP KUMAR,
     MR. KARAN SHARMA, MR. SANDEEP KR. JHA, MR. JYOTI MENDIRATTA, MR.
     RAHUL KHURANA, ADVOCATES

     Date : 02-05-2025 This petition was called on for hearing today.

     CORAM :
                         HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ABHAY S. OKA
                         HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UJJAL BHUYAN

                                   Ms. Aparajita Singh, Sr. Adv. (A.C.)
                                   Ms. Uttara Babbar, Sr. Adv. (A.C.)
                                   Ms. Shibani Ghosh, AOR (A.C.)

     For the Parties(s): Mrs. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G.
                         Mr. Wasim Quadri, Sr. Adv.
                         Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR
                         Mrs. Suhasini Sen, Adv.
                         Mr. Rajesh Kr. Singh, Adv.
                         Mr. Subhranshu Padhi, Adv.
                         Mr. Jagdish Chandra Solanki, Adv.

                                   Mr. Lokesh Sinhal, Sr. A.A.G.
                                   Mr. B.K. Satija, A.A.G.
                                   Mr. Rakesh Kumar Mudgal, A.A.G.
                                   Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, AOR
                                   Mr. Rahul Khurana, Adv.
                                   Mr. Nikunj Gupta, Adv.
                                   Ms. Drishti Saraf, Adv.
Signature Not Verified
                                   Ms. Pragya Upadhyay, Adv.
Digitally signed by
ASHISH KONDLE
Date: 2025.05.06
                                   Ms. Aakanksha, Adv.
16:35:21 IST
Reason:                            Ms. Ishika Gupta, Adv.
                                   Mr. Sarthak Arya, Adv.
                                   Mr. Ravi Vashisht, Adv.

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Mr. Sanjiv Sen, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Sanjay Vasistha, Adv.
Mr. Prahalad Balaji, Adv.
Ms. Anjali Singh, Adv.
Mr. Pragyan Mishra, Adv.
Mr. Shankey Agrawal, AOR
Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv.

Mr. P. K. Jain, AOR

Mr. Ramesh Babu M.R., AOR

Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, AOR

Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR

Mrs. Priya Puri, AOR

Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR

Mrs.   K. Sarada Devi, AOR

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR

Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, AOR

M/S.   Khaitan & Co., AOR

Mr. T.V. Ratnam, AOR

Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR

Mr. Aniruddha Deshmukh, AOR

Mr. Ravindra Bana, AOR

Mr. S.S. Shroff, AOR

Mr. Sushil Kumar Jain, AOR

Mr. Abhishek, AOR

Mr. Alok Gupta, AOR

Mr. Sarvam Ritam Khare, AOR
Mr. Kushagra Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Anuj Agarwal, Adv.
Mr. Akarsh Khare, Adv.

Mr. Surya Kant, AOR


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Mrs. B. Sunita Rao, AOR

Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR

Mr. Pramod Dayal, AOR

Mr. R. P. Gupta, AOR

Mr. P. Parmeswaran, AOR

Mr. Rakesh Kumar-I, AOR

Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR

M/S.   M. V. Kini & Associates, AOR

Mr. Pavan Kumar, AOR

Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR

M/S.   Saharya & Co., AOR

Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR

M/S.   S. Narain & Co., AOR

Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR

Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv.
Mr. Rohan Talwar, Adv.
Mr. Uday Aditya Jetley Pocha, Adv.
Mr. Naman Agarwal, Adv.
Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR

Mr. Wasim S. Qadri, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Utkarsh Pratap, Adv.
Ms. Arunima Das, Adv.
Mr. Devesh Maurya, Adv.
Ms. Bhumika Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR

Mr. Prashant Kumar, AOR

Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, AOR

Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR

Ms. Binu Tamta, AOR

Mr. Ajit Pudussery, AOR

Mrs. Bina Gupta, AOR


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Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR

Mr. V. K. Verma, AOR

Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, AOR

Mr. Mukesh K. Giri, AOR
Mr. Mandaar Mukesh Giri, Adv.

Ms. Adviteeya, Adv.
Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, AOR

Ms. Sujeeta Srivastava, AOR

Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR

M/S.   Parekh & Co., AOR

Mr. Sudhir Mendiratta, AOR

Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR
Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv.
Mr. Santhosh K, Adv.

Mr. Sushil Kumar Singh, AOR

Mr. Hardeep Singh Anand, AOR

Mr. Sandeep Narain, AOR

Ms. Nandini Gidwaney, AOR

Mrs. Rani Chhabra, AOR

Mr. G. Prakash, AOR

Ms. Shalini Kaul, AOR

Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, AOR

Mr. Shri Narain, AOR

Mr. Umesh Kumar Khaitan, AOR

Ms. Pritha Srikumar Iyer, AOR

Ms. Sakshi Kakkar, AOR

Mr. Akshay Girish Ringe, AOR

Mr. Anuj Bhandari, AOR

Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G.

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Mr. Saurabh Rajpal, Adv.
Ms. Shalini Singh, Adv.
Ms. Awanitika, Adv.
Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, AOR

Mr. Ravi Prakash, AOR

Ms. N. Annapoorani, AOR

Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR

M/S. Ahmadi Law Offices, AOR

Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G.
Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv.
Mr. Rajesh Kr.singh, Adv.
Mr. Subhranshu Padhi, Adv.
Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv.
Ms. Sweksha, Adv.
Dr. N. Visakamurthy, AOR

Mr. Aashhish Chauhan, Adv.
Ms. Sonal Chauhan, Adv.
Ms. Vanya Gupta, AOR
Ms. Pavani Verma, Adv.

Ms. Kajal Dalal, AOR

Ms. Divya Roy, AOR

Ms. Shagun Matta, AOR

Mr. Vinay Garg, AOR

Mr. Anil Kumar, AOR

Mr. Rakesh Kumar-I, AOR

Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR
Mr. Anupama Ngangom,, Adv.
Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv.
Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Vikrant Singh Bais, AOR

Ms. Neeru Vaid, AOR

Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G.
Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv.
Mr. Rajesh.k. Singh, Adv.
Mr. Shubhranshu Padhi, Adv.
Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv.
Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv.

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Ms. Kanu Agrawal, Adv.
Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv.
Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv.
Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv.
Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv.
Mr. Jagdish Chandra, Adv.
Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR

Mr. Saurabh Agrawal, AOR

Mr. Devansh Srivastava, AOR

Mr. Shekhar Kumar, AOR

M/S.   S. Narain & Co., AOR

Ms. Aswathi M.k., AOR

Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR
Mr. Rajesh Kumar Maurya, Adv.
Mrs. Kshama Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Ujjwal Ashutosh, Adv.
Mr. Ramendra Vikram Singh, Adv.

Ms. Lubna Naaz, AOR

Mr. Parminder Singh Bhullar, AOR

Mr. Chandrakant S Sarkar, Adv.
Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv.
Mr. Narendra Kumar Goyal, Adv.
Mr. Ikshit Singhal, Adv.
Mr. Naveen Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Jeetendra Kumar, Adv.
Ms. Kajal Rani, Adv.
For M/S. Mukesh Kumar Singh And Co., AOR

Mr. Alok Gupta, AOR

Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR

Mr. Yash S. Vijay, AOR

Mr. Debdeep Banerjee, Adv.
For M/s Lex Regis Law Offices, AOR

Ms. Jaikriti S. Jadeja, AOR

Mr. Rajan Narain, AOR

Mr. Gaurav, AOR

Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR

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Mr. Mohit Paul, AOR

Mr. Nischal Kumar Neeraj, AOR

Ms. Aastha Mehta, Adv.
Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR
Mr. Satyalipsu Ray, Adv.
Ms. Prerana Mohapatra, Adv.
Ms. Prina Sharma, Adv.

Ms. Ankita Sharma, AOR
Mr. Arjun D Singh, Adv.

Mr. Kumar Dushyant Singh, AOR

Mr. A. Venayagam Balan, AOR

Mr. S. S. Shroff, AOR

Ms. Astha Tyagi, AOR

Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G.
Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, Adv.
Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR

M/S.   M. V. Kini & Associates, AOR

Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR

Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G.
Mr. Chitransh Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Chitrangda Rastravara, Adv.
Ms. Shivika Mehra, Adv.
Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv.
Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv.
Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv.
Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, Aor, Adv.
Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR

Mr. Nishit Agrawal, AOR

Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR

Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR

Ms. Sanjivani Aggarwal, Adv.
Ms. Jyoti Aggarwal, Adv.
Mr. Pradeep Shekhawat, Adv.
Ms. Filza Moonis, AOR

Mr. Divyanshu Kumar Srivastava, AOR
Mr. Saurabh Pandey, Adv.

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Mr. Rajiv Yadav, AOR

Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR
Ms. Debarati Sadhu, Adv.
Ms. Yoowanka Rymbai, Adv.

Mr. Ayush Sharma, AOR

Mr. Gopal Jha, AOR

Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR
Mr. Daleep Dhyani, Adv.

Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR
Mr. Ravi Shanker Jha, Adv.

Mr. Harsh V. Surana, AOR

Mr. Yashraj Singh Bundela, AOR
Mr. Surjeet Singh, Adv.
Ms. Saloni, Adv.
Mr. Arpit Garg, Adv.
Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Pulkit Agarwal, AOR

Mr. S S Bandyopadhyay, Adv.
Mr. Syed Miran Ahmad, Adv.
Mr. Abhaya Nath Das, Adv.
Mr. Bhupendra Pathak, Adv.
Ms. Swagoti Batchas, Adv.
Mr. Om Prakash, Adv.
Ms. Swati Mishra, Adv.
Mr. Mohammed Abrar Ahmed Khan, Adv.
Mrs. Barnali Basak, Adv.
Mr. Abhay Singh, Adv.
Mr. Boya Kranthi Naidu, Adv.
Mr. Kishor Kumar Mishra, Adv.
Dr. Aditya Mishra, Adv.
Mr. Rahul Gupta, Adv.
Mr. Om Prakash Sapra, Adv.
Mr. Yogendra Kumar Verma, Adv.
Mr. BC Bhatt, Adv.
Mr. Satish Kumar, AOR

Ms. Ameyavikrama Thanvi , AOR

Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR
Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.
Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv.
Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv.


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Mr. Anas Tanwir, AOR

Ms. Puja Sharma, AOR

Mr. Shishir Deshpande, AOR

Mr. D.kumanan, AOR

Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR

Ms. Rakhi Ray, AOR

Ms. Ishita Jain, AOR

Mr. Manish Kumar Gupta, AOR

Mr. Sravan Kumar Karanam, AOR

Mr. M. P. Devanath, AOR

Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Srishti Mishra, Adv.
Mr. Sumeet Mishra, Adv.
Mr. R. C. Kohli, AOR

Mr. Rishi Matoliya, AOR

Mr. Anurag Kishore, AOR

Ms. Mayuri Raghuvanshi, AOR

Mr. Neeraj Kumar Gupta, AOR

Ms. Pritha Srikumar Iyer, AOR

Ms. Rooh-e-hina Dua, AOR

Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, AOR

Ms. Charu Mathur, AOR

Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Adv.
Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv.
Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR

Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR
Mr. P Rohit Ram, Adv.
Mr. Abhay Nair, Adv.

Mr. Sameer Shrivastava, AOR

Ms. Nidhi Mohan Parashar, AOR


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Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR

Ms. Anushree Prashit Kapadia, AOR

Ms. Purnima Jauhari, AOR
Dr. Brij Bhushan K Jauhari, Adv.
Mr. Deepak Jyoti Ghildiyal, Adv.
Mr. O P Singh, Adv.
Mr. Harsh Mahan, Adv.

Mr. Danish Zubair Khan, AOR

Mr. Vikas Mehta, AOR

Mr. Mudit Gupta , AOR

Ms. K. V. Bharathi Upadhyaya, AOR

Mr. Shantwanu Singh, AOR

Ms. Surabhi Sanchita, AOR

Mr. Vinod Sharma, AOR

Mr. Debojit Borkakati, AOR

Mr. Vikrant Singh Bais, AOR

Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR

Mr. Ketan Paul, AOR

Mr. Hiren Dasan, AOR

Mr. Ajay Vikram Singh, AOR
Mrs. Priyanka Singh, Adv.
Mr. Kamlesh Kumar Maurya, Adv.
Mr. M Aamir Faiyaz, Adv.
Ms. Swati, Adv.
Ms. Jyotsna Sharma, Adv.

Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. A.A.G.
Mr. Sudeep Kumar, AOR
Ms. Manisha, Adv.
Ms. Ananya Rai, Adv.

Mr. Niraj Gupta, AOR
Mrs. Anshu Gupta, Adv.
Mr. Subham Gupta, Adv.

Ms. Shibani Ghosh, AOR

Mr. Tarun Gupta, AOR

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Mr. Vivek Gupta, AOR

Mr. Vinay Garg, AOR

M/S. Ram Sankar & Co, AOR

Mr. P. Parmeswaran, AOR

Mr. Durga Dutt, AOR

Mr. Soumya Dutta, AOR

M/S. Ram Sankar & Co, AOR

Ms. Malvika Kapila, AOR

Mr. K. Paari Vendhan, AOR

Mr. Prashant Manchanda, A.A.G.
Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR

Mr. Mudit Gupta, AOR

Mr. Kawaljit Singh Bhatia, AOR

Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR

Mr. Shovan Mishra, AOR
Ms. Bipasa Tripathy, Adv.

Ms. G. Indira, AOR

Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR

Mrs. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G.
Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR
Mrs. Alka Agarwal, Adv.
Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv.
Mrs. Ruchi Kohli, Adv.
Mr. Ashok Kumar B, Adv.
Ms. Baby Devi Bonia, Adv.
Mr. Anirudh Bhat, Adv.
Mr. Prashant Singh Ii, Adv.

Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR
Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Sameer Kumar, AOR

Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR

Mr. Gaurav Kejriwal, AOR

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Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR
Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv.

Mr. Ankit Roy, AOR

Mr. Mukesh Verma, Adv.
Mrs. Vatsala Tripathi, Adv.
Ms. Manisha, Adv.
Mr. Premchand Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Krishna Prakash Dubay, Adv.
Mr. Yash Pal Dhingra, AOR

Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, AOR

Ms. G. Indira, AOR

Mr. Aakarshan Aditya, AOR

Mr. Nitin Saluja, AOR

Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR

Ms. Rashmi Malhotra, AOR

Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR

Mr. Dhananjaya Mishra, AOR

Mr. Rahul Khurana, AOR

Ms. Srishti Agnihotri, AOR

Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G.
Ms. Suhasini Sain, Adv.
Mr. Shubhranshu Padhi, Adv.
Mr. Rajesh Kr. Singh, Adv.
Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv.
Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR

M/S. Karanjawala & Co., AOR

Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR
Mr. Raghavendra M. Kulkarni, Adv.

Mr. Chandra Prakash, AOR

Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR

Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR

Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR

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Mr. Ravindra S. Garia, AOR

Mr. Gaurav Choudhary, AOR

Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AOR

Mr. Aravindh S., AOR
Mr. Aman Gautam, Adv.

Ms. Meenakshi Chauhan, AOR

Mr. Gaurav, AOR

Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR
Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv.
Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv.

Ms. Charu Ambwani, AOR

Mr. Subhro Sanyal, AOR
Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Satya Prakash Narain Tripathi, Adv.
Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Mahendra Pratap Singh, Adv.
Mr. Ved Prakash Pandey, Adv.

Mr. Vinodh Kanna B., AOR

Mr. Prasanna S., AOR

Ms. Shalu Sharma, AOR

Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR

Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, AOR

Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR
Mr. Keshav Singh, Adv.
Mr. Dhananjay Dutta Shrimali, Adv.

Mr. Rishi Sehgal, AOR

Mr. Kunal Mimani, AOR
Mr. Prashant Alai, Adv.

Ms. Tulika Mukherjee, AOR

Ms. Divya Jyoti Singh, AOR

Mr. Yoginder Handoo, AOR

Ms. Misha Rohatgi, AOR

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                     Mr. Nakul Mohta, Adv.
                     Mr. Amulya Upadhyay, Adv.
                     Mr. Ayush Kahsyap, Adv.

                     Mr. Sandeep Singh, AOR

                     Ms. Mithu Jain, AOR

                     Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, AOR
                     Ms. Nivedita Nan, Adv.
                     Mr. Shashikant Pralhad Chaudhari, Adv.

                     Mr. Akhil Anand, AOR

                     Mrs. Prerna Dhall, Adv.
                     Ms. Akanksha Singh, Adv.
                     Mr. Ambuj Swaroop, Adv.
                     Mr. Shivam Ganeshia, Adv.
                     Mr. Piyush Yadav, Adv.
                     Mr. M A Chaudhary, Adv.
                     Mr. Prashant Singh, AOR

                     Mr. Chirayu Jain, Adv.
                     Mr. Shivendra Singh, AOR
                     Ms. Prakriti Rastogi, Adv.

                     Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, AOR

          UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following
                             O R D E R

IN RE: GURGAON LANDFILL BURNING ISSUE

1. The learned Amicus Curiae had requested the Court to take up the matter today. There is a Bandhwari Landfill within the limits of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram. It is pointed out that the Landfill has 13 lakh metric tons of solid waste, out of which 09 lakh metric tons is legacy waste. In April 2025, there were at least two fires and it took four days for the fire brigade to douse the last fire. We have seen the video. We are shocked to see the video. One can imagine what is the extent of pollution created by such fires and even if, fire has been extinguished, smoke will continue to exist. This will cause major health hazards to the 14 citizens.

2. Our attention is invited to various obligations of the local authorities under the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (for short, “the 2016 Rules”) and in particular clause (zg) of Rule 15 which reads thus:

“15. Duties and responsibilities of local authorities and village Panchayats of census towns and urban agglomerations.- The local authorities and Panchayats shall,-
(zg) create public awareness through information, education and communication campaign and educate the waste generators on the following; namely:-
(i) not to litter;
(ii) minimise generation of waste;
(iii) reuse the waste to the extent possible;
(iv) practice segregation of waste into bio– degradable, non-biodegradable (recyclable and combustible), sanitary waste and domestic hazardous wastes at source;
(v) practice home composting, vermi-

composting, bio-gas generation or community level composting;

(vi) wrap securely used sanitary waste as and when generated in the pouches provided by the brand owners or a suitable wrapping as prescribed by the local body and place the same in the bin meant for non-biodegradable waste;

(vii) storage of segregated waste at source in different bins;

(viii) handover segregated waste to waste pickers, waste collectors, recyclers or waste collection agencies; and

(ix) pay monthly user fee or charges to waste collectors or local bodies or any other person authorised by the local body for sustainability of solid waste management.” 15 It is obligation of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram to take immediate measures in terms of clause (zg) of Rule 15 of the 2016 Rules.

3. It must be noted here that this Landfill Site is used not only by the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram, but also by the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad. There are large scale instances of similar fires in the NCR region. Therefore, it will be appropriate if the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) issues directions under Section 12 of the Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Act, 2021 dealing with this issue including the preventive measures.

4. We direct the Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of the Gurugram to file an affidavit setting out the outer limit within which, the legacy waste of at least, 09 lakh metric tons will be removed. Such affidavit to be filed by 14th May, 2025.

5. List on 15th May, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. (ASHISH KONDLE) (AVGV RAMU) ASTT. REGISTRAR-cum-PS COURT MASTER (NSH) 16