The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is yet to start the land acquisition process for the dumping ground they plan to set up across a 100-acre plot near Karavle village in Ambernath. Reason: Villagers refuse to leave their homes and part with their land till the government gives them permanent houses instead of the temporary metal-sheet tents that they have been asked to shift to.

In November, last year the Bombay High Court had asked the state government to hand over 38.85 hectares of land in the area to BMC to start the project. It had said that 12.4 hectares should be given within the next three months, which is by January 31, and the remaining 26.71 hectares within the next year. However, not much of this process has moved since.