But even as the citizens were extra careful about not littering Indore, the 100-acre dumpsite that bore the burden of several years of dumping, was still in a pitiful state.
Furthermore, even as the Indore Municipal Corporation was trying to execute bio-remediation work there, the process was moving at a snail's pace.
This, till IAS officer Asheesh Singh was appointed as the Municipal Commissioner of IMC in May 2018.
Singh, who had dreamed of joining the civil services since he was a child, was determined to take up this project with a different strategy. He decided to complete it within a shorter time period and without costing the municipal corporation an arm and a leg.
He began with the idea that the dumpsite could be transferred into a beautiful golf course—a place that people would look forward to visit.
"Bio-remediation or bio-mining is an environmentally friendly technique to separate soil and recyclables like plastic, metal, paper, cloth and other solid materials from legacy waste," he informed TBI, adding that, "The work was taken up on war footing, and bio-remediation of legacy waste of approximately 13 lakh metric ton of garbage was completed on 5th December 2018."
Aiding Singh in his mission were Additional Commissioner Rohan Saxena and Mr Asad Warsi, who works with the Eco Pro Environmental Services of the Ministry of Urban Development.
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