India, June 28 -- After 13 years of dumping municipal waste at the Bandhwari landfill, the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) stopped transporting fresh waste to the site from Friday, officials said, following directions issued by Union minister of housing and urban affairs, Manohar Lal, after his inspection of the landfill on May 28.

Officials said the move would provide temporary relief to the overburdened landfill, which receives waste from Gurugram and Faridabad and has long faced recurring fires, legacy waste accumulation, leachate ponds, foul stench and pollution complaints.

Faridabad generates 900 to 1,000 tonnes of municipal waste every day. To manage the waste, MCF will rely on its existing decentralised processing plants...