By Indu Bhan
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In a relief to GMR-led Delhi International Airport (DIAL), the Delhi High Court has quashed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s tender for setting up a material recovery facility for management of dry solid waste in Delhi’s Najafgarh zone, including the Aerocity area.Justice Jyoti Singh while ruling in favour of DIAL ordered “the impugned Tender Notice of November 28, 2024 is quashed to the extent its Scope of Work includes Aerocity and the interim order of December 24, 2024 is made absolute, leaving it open to MCD to proceed with the Tender Notice for the remaining Project Area.”The court in its interim order had restrained the MCD from proceeding with the tender process to the extent it included the disputed areas in the Scope of Work.Justice Singh rejected the MCD’s stand that its jurisdiction and domain to carry out municipal functions, including solid waste management extends to whole of Delhi, as defined in Section 2(10) of DMC Act, which reads as ‘the entire area of the Union Territory of Delhi except New Delhi and Delhi Cantonment’ and since Aerocity falls in Najafgarh Zone, which is neither Cantonment nor NDMC area, only MCD can carry out the function of solid waste management at the Aerocity.“This contention (MCD’s stand) is without merit. No doubt, going by the definition of ‘Delhi’, Najafgarh Zone falls within MCD’s jurisdiction, however, this argument cannot further the case of MCD.Live EventsThe court said that DIAL, a JV between a consortium of GMR Airports, the Airports Authority of India (AAI), and Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide, was carrying out the function of solid waste management at the airport site under Rule 4(7) of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, read with the operation management and development agreement.In the absence of a specific provision under the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957, vesting this function and obligation exclusively in the civic body, it is legally impermissible for the corporation to include any part of the airport site, including Aerocity, in its tender for solid waste management, it said, adding if the MCD’s plea is accepted, the purpose of framing Rule 4(7) of the 2016 Rules would be defeated.DIAL had argued that it was established for the sole purpose of exercising rights and authority as well as carrying out obligations to undertake operations, maintenance, development, design, construction, upgradation, modernisation, finance, and management of Delhi airport, including solid waste management. Despite being aware of this, the corporation had issued the tender purely for commercial reasons, it alleged.Add as a Reliable and Trusted News Source Add Now!
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