To counter the growing problem of waste disposal in the Capital, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is developing ultramodern sanitary landfill sites at three locations in Jaitpur, Narela-Bawana and Bhatti Mines. In a statement on Tuesday, MCD Standing Committee Chairman Vijender Gupta said Delhi was one of the most populated cities in the world and generated over 6,000-7,000 metric tonnes of solid waste daily. "If this rate of population growth continues, garbage production will go up to 14,300 metric tonnes per day. It is imperative that we focus on alternative methods of disposing of garbage since land available for this purpose is scarce.' Mr. Gupta said there were presently three sanitary landfill sites at Bhalaswa, Ghazipur and Okhla all of which were filled to their capacity and would remain functional for disposal of solid waste for one more year at the most. "The civic body is working to develop three new sanitary landfill sites at Jaitpur, Narela-Bawana and Bhatti Mines. These sites will be engineered to prevent contamination of ground water and work will be undertaken on a war footing to ensure that the sites are ready in time for the Commonwealth Games-2010. The Jaitpur site has a capacity of 1,000 metric tonnes per day will be available for use from December for a period of seven years, the Narela-Bawana site for 20 years and the Bhatti Minies site for 25 years,' he added. Mr. Gupta said the civic body had also initiated work on setting up Refused Derived Fuel (RDF) plants at Timarpur and Okhla. "The RDF produced from these plants will be used for electricity generation. The plant at Okhla will have the capacity to produce RDF from 1,300 tonnes of garbage while the Timarpur plant will be able to handle 600 tonnes of garbage,' he added.