With the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) failing time and again to attract contractors for working on closure of Deonar dumping ground, the BMC will now be appointing National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to take care of the waste management at the city's largest dumping ground. The proposal for the same will be tabled before the standing committee on November 6, for approval.

The BMC first floated the tender for the waste to energy plant back in 2016. Due to various reasons including lack of available technology, the contractors didn't show any interest in the project. Despite floating the tender twice and giving four extensions, the situation hasn't changed so far. The Bombay High Court gave a 'last extension' to continue to dump solid waste at the Deonar dumping ground till December this year.