Chandigarh, April 18 -- Nearly 20 days after the Chandigarh administration claimed before the Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) that the legacy waste at Dadumajra would be cleared within 10 days, it has moved the deadline to the first week of May.

UT's senior standing counsel Amit Jhanji on Friday told the HC bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry that there is no fresh dumping taking place at the spot and only the legacy waste remains. "..while an earlier internal target of April 30 had been considered, a buffer had been kept in view of possible disruptions," he said while giving a fresh deadline of May first week.

The submissions were made during the resumed hearing of a 2016 plea which sought directions to the MC...