India, April 9 -- New Delhi

Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday chaired a meeting with officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to take stock of the sanitation and waste management situation in the Capital, issuing a series of directives from redevelopment of public toilets and formulating strong mechanisms to support sustainable waste disposal practices, officials aware of the developments said.

Among the key issues discussed was the establishment and capacity augmentation of state-of-the-art waste-to-energy plants in Ghazipur, Narela, Okhla and Tehkhand, intended to modernise waste processing and reduce landfill burden.

"The plants have already been proposed and approved by the government and the department is now pr...