GURUGRAM: The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has been asked to explain how it will manage fresh waste at Bandhwari between March and July 2027, alongside clearing the existing dump, according to details published on Monday, November 9, 2026. The new account of the tribunal proceedings puts the unprocessed balance at 14.77 lakh metric tonnes as of October 31 and identifies six subjects on which the corporation and Haryana government must provide sworn replies.

The Bandhwari landfill serves as the destination for Gurugram's municipal waste. For households whose rubbish continues to reach the site, the question raised by the National Green Tribunal concerns both the material already accumulated and the garbage arriving while that material is being processed. Two local reports published on November 9 agree on the principal figures and the requirement for affidavits.

What the updated waste account shows

The figures are attributed to MCG's status report dated November 4, 2026. That report describes 30.43 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste at Bandhwari in January 2023. A further 27.87 lakh metric tonnes of fresh waste reached the site between January 2023 and October 2026. Together, those quantities make up the reported total of 58.30 lakh metric tonnes.

Against that combined load, the corporation reported processing 43.53 lakh metric tonnes by October 31. Subtracting the processed quantity from the combined total gives the outstanding 14.77 lakh metric tonnes. These figures describe the accounting period in the municipal report. They should not be read as a fresh physical measurement taken on November 9 or November 11.

  • Legacy waste in January 2023: 30.43 lakh metric tonnes.
  • Fresh arrivals through October 2026: 27.87 lakh metric tonnes.
  • Combined waste accounted for: 58.30 lakh metric tonnes.
  • Processed by October 31, 2026: 43.53 lakh metric tonnes.
  • Unprocessed balance at that date: 14.77 lakh metric tonnes.

The corporation also projects that about 8.50 lakh metric tonnes could remain after completion of arrangements covering an existing 14 lakh metric tonnes and another 2.8 lakh metric tonnes. That is a forward estimate under the arrangements described in the reports, rather than an alternative measurement of the October 31 balance. The two numbers concern different stages of the clearance exercise.

Six questions go beyond removing the visible heap

The tribunal has sought affidavits from the secretary of Haryana's Urban Local Bodies Department and the municipal commissioner. The requested account covers the progress of scientific processing, the quantity of compost produced and where it has actually been used, and the amount of inert material produced and its disposal or reuse. Those questions require the corporation to account for the outputs of processing as well as the tonnes fed into it.

Another question concerns the land recovered after waste removal. The corporation must explain how much land has been freed and what it proposes to do with it. The reports do not identify a newly opened public facility on that land, announce that residents can enter it, or establish that the landfill has ceased receiving municipal waste.

The remaining questions address fresh garbage: what steps are being taken to close the difference between daily waste generation and processing capacity, and how additional arrivals will be managed between March and July 2027. That interval is specifically identified in the tribunal's request for clarification. A clearance programme for an existing stock does not, by itself, answer what happens to material arriving after the stock was counted.

The next deadline is an explanation of the gap

The corporation has identified July 31, 2027, as its target for closing the processing capacity gap. The tribunal has questioned how that timing fits with the earlier clearance schedule. Its request is for a clear arrangement for the intervening months, so the next account needs to distinguish the old balance, fresh arrivals and the capacity available to handle each.

The next hearing is listed for February 18, 2027. That is the reported court date, not a promise that Bandhwari will be cleared by then. No household collection timetable, revised user charge or neighbourhood pickup route is announced in these reports. Residents should therefore treat this development as scrutiny of the disposal system rather than a change to their collection schedule.

The municipal corporation's official website identifies the responsible civic body. The underlying tribunal order was not accessible during this check; the figures and directions above were cross checked against two opened reports. Related local background includes the October garbage collection rollout, the earlier sanitation enforcement account and the directions for night checks of sweeping work. Those cover separate municipal responsibilities from the landfill affidavits now sought.