Even as the city gears up to mark World Environment Day on June 5, it is time to highlight a report in this paper which stated that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) ambitious waste-to-energy (WTE) project has stalled for want of a No Objection Certificate from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). The Central government had given the project clearance in a month.

To give context to this, the BMC had approved a Rs 504-crore waste-to-energy mega project in November 2021 at the Deonar dumping ground. The environment clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change came in December 2021. After that BMC approached MPCB, but is awaiting the green light.