The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) ambitious waste-to-energy project has stalled for want of a No Objection Certificate from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). Interestingly, the Central government had given the project clearance in just a month.

The BMC had approved a Rs 504 crore waste-to-energy mega project in November 2021 at the Deonar dumping ground. “The Environment Clearance (EC) for it from the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change came in December 2021. After that BMC approached MPCB but we are still waiting for an NOC from the agency. We can’t move ahead till we get the NOC. BMC officials held a meeting with MPCB officials in the first week of May 2022 regarding this,” said a BMC official.