The inordinate time taken to construct the boundary wall of the
dumpyard and to repair the access road— both are part of the scientific
closure of the Deonar ground plan—had led to a long queue of garbage
vehicles outside the compound, alleged corporators. They claimed with
the vans stranded at the yard for most part of the day or breaking down
on the stretch, they cannot make enough rounds of the city and
consequently, cannot collect all the garbage piling up.

Samajwadi Party group leader and corporator from the area Rais Shaikh
told TOI, “The boundary wall of the dumping ground is taking ages to be
completed; in fact, it has been over two years since the work began.
The access road to the ground, too, is in a mess and the
garbage-collection vans often get stuck there.” The BMC also admitted
that even the slightest rainfall made the access road sludgy. “Often
vehicles entering the dumping ground break down on the road, which is in
a terrible condition,” said a senior BMC official. Incidentally, the
stretch has remained in the same pathetic condition for several years
now. “The little rainfall that we have received so far has been good
enough to make the condition of the access road worse,” said Yogesh Sharma, a Deonar resident.

Civic officials conceded that with the vans getting stranded, they
cannot collecet all the garbage that keeps piling up. “The condition of
the dumpyard does prevent the vans from making the required number of
trips,” said an official. Shaikh said, “The BMC must expedite the
closure. Only that can solve the problem.”