At a time when city's sanitary landfill sites are overflowing with garbage and civic agencies are struggling to find new dumping spaces, the Delhi government has taken a firm stand and refused to shelve its plan to develop a hazardous waste management site in west Delhi which has run into a controversy due to resistance from local residents. A Delhi HC Bench headed by Justice Swatantra Kumar was informed by the Delhi government counsel, Meera Bhatia, that Ghumanhera site near Najafgarh was crucial for creating an alternative to the overflowing landfill sites in the city which generates 7000 metric tonne garbage daily. She said the civic agencies were hard pressed to comply with an apex court order to create a hazardous waste management facility which is proposed to have a capacity to handle 1000 metric tonne garbage daily.