Chandigarh, Sept. 21 -- Monsoon rains have slowed down the municipal corporation's (MC) efforts to remove the legacy waste piled up at the Dadumajra dumping ground, with officials now aiming to clear the leftover 60,000 metric tonnes (MT) by November 30, 2025.

During the National Green Tribunal (NGT) court hearing on Friday, officials from the UT administration and civic body assured to meet the fresh deadline.

Thanks to inadequate waste processing facilities, Chandigarh has been battling two legacy waste mountains of 5 LMT and 8 LMT that came up over the past two decades.

While the 5 LMT waste was processed and cleared by December 2022, MC had set the deadline for completing the bio-remediation of 8 LMT trash by July 2023.

But it was...