Moreover, landfills which were located in the outskirts of a city earlier has now shifted and become part of urban landscape which is often ignored. The non-availability of land in these urban areas for a designated land for new dumps has further enhanced the need for rehabilitation or remediation of the existing dumpsites. In an Indian context as most of the landfills refer to open dumps sites (which are not sanitary landfills in most cases), the terminology used in this paper also mean the same.