The landfill site being developed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi at Jaitpur near Badarpur will become operational by December. The project is spread over 24.6 acre and has a depth of 26 metres. The site was handed over to the MCD by the Delhi Government. Work on the site has been progressing for long albeit at a slow pace as work needed to be done by the Engineering Department on dewatering the pits after a contractor had expressed his inability to fully dewater the Jaitpur /Taijpur Pahari.The Jaitpur sanitary site is the first of its kind in the Capital and will have the provision of surface lining to prevent pollutants from filtering down to the ground water. It has been developed after getting environmental clearance from Delhi Pollution Control committee. The project will have the capacity to absorbing 1000 metric tonnes of solid waste every day. MCD Standing Committee chairman Vijender Gupta informed that the face of the garbage dump will be covered so that people in the vicinity are not troubled. Only a day's garbage will be open, he said. As the Capital generates around 7,000 metric tones of solid waste daily its disposal is becoming an acute problem. At the current pace, generation of garbage will rise to 14,300 metric tones per day by 2024. The three landfill sites at Bhalaswa, Ghazipur and Okhla are likely to reach their capacity shortly. Therefore, the MCD is planning to develop three new sanitary landfill sites at Jaitpur, Narela-Bawana and Bhatti Mines. These sites will also be engineered ones like the one at Jaitpur. The land for the Narela-Bawana Road site has been made available to the MCD while efforts are underway to acquire land at the Bhatti Mines site. The Jaitpur sanitary landfill will be available for disposal of waste for the next seven years. The Narela-Bawana site with a capacity of 1000 metric tonnes per day will be operational for the next 20 years. Similarly, Bhatti Mines Sanitary Landfill site with a capacity of 2000 metric tonnes per day will be available for the next 25 years.