Cement Factory

If you ever climbed up onto the heap of garbage called the Okhla Landfill, you would see a concrete and steel behemoth. This is the CCI's cement factory. or rather it was. today the factory grounds are used to store empty containers. there is a huge container depot (inland port) just behind it.


i didnt want to encounter any guards so i took a roundabout way through piles of garbage and undergrowth and squeezed through a barbed wire fence to get in from behind. there are huge conveyor belts everywhere. some for feeding the raw materials onto the top of the concrete cylinder and others for taking out the finished product.



Inside the cylinder at the bottom most level.... Its incredibly dusty. some footprints in the undisturbed layers of dust. and many paw-prints of dogs. In one corner there is a limping chair, probably acquired from the sarkari office next door. and a few empty bottles of cheap whisky.



Most of the conveyor belts and stairs have been elaborately fenced off with barbed wire. i found one that led all the way up that was not. i could see a few guards and truck drivers below as i climbed up. they didnt see me though. i was too unexpected to be noticed. no one looks up i guess.



Incredible wind on the top. full of cement dust and the fine decomposed garbage and smoke that flies off the landfill. all the corrugated metal sheets have come loose and rattle constantly in the wind. kilos and kilos of pigeon shit. some places have over 12 inches of it.