Chandigarh, March 28 -- The long-standing legacy waste at Dadumajra garbage dump will be completely removed within 10 days, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) has assured the Punjab and Haryana high court.

"About 6,100 metric tonnes (MT) of waste is remaining at the site and full clearance is expected within 10 days," MC's counsel told the court on Friday.

"Future waste management will be handled through a proposed facility to be allotted to the Indian Oil Corporation, which will convert waste into gas and prevent further accumulation at the site," the court was further informed.

Decades of inadequate garbage processing left Chandigarh grappling with three mountains of legacy waste.

The first mountain, comprising 5 lakh MT, was...