MCD launches special sanitation drive

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JUNE 29. Even as the monsoon hit the Capital today flooding roads, lanes and by-lanes and exposing all the tall claims of civic agencies, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) announced that it will launch a special sanitation-cum- cleanliness drive from July 1 to maintain optimum level of sanitation and check outbreak of vector and water-borne diseases. The fortnight-long drive, to be launched from Nand Nagari on Saturday, will subsequently be initiated in the ward committees the following day.

Addressing a press conference here today, Mr. Mahesh Chandra Sharma, leader of the House, said all concerned departments of MCD have been directed to deploy their men and resources to make the drive a success. A special well-equipped mobile squad is being deployed in every zone which will remove garbage as soon as complaint is received in the zonal control rooms. Door-to-door garbage collection will be intensified and commercial complexes and market places will be cleaned at night, he said.

The Conservancy and Sanitation Engineering Department (CSE) has been asked to ensure that all accumulated garbage and refuse is collected and disposed off regularly from dalaos and dustbins, market places, commercial complexes and religious places. Attention will be paid to cleaning of public conveniences, replacing of missing manholes, entry and exit points of Old and New Delhi railway stations, bus stands, airports and major road junctions.

All road signs will be re-painted, damaged roads repaired and street lights kept functioning. Jhuggi-jhompri clusters will get special attention during the drive. Mr. Sharma said children in municipal primary schools will be encouraged to take part in the drive to keep the premises clean.

Giving details of the action taken so far, Mr. Sharma said of the 1,173 nallahs, work of desilting of 1,018 has been completed. A total quantity of 4,92,035 metric tonnes of silt has been removed to sanitary landfills. Of a total of 1,396 septic tanks, 728 have been cleaned and the work is in progress in the others.

Mr. Sharma appealed to all NGOs, resident welfare associations and public and private sector undertakings to cooperate with them to keep the city clean.

Meanwhile, the telephone numbers of the MCD control rooms were also released by the MCD today\. The Central Control Room at Town Hall (396-2700 and 3912700); City Zone (323-2700); Civil Lines Zone (294-2700); Karol Bagh Zone (581-2700); Sadar-Paharganj Zone (351-2700); West Zone (542-2700); Central Zone (631-2700); South Zone (652-2700); Rohini Zone (704-2700); Shahdara (South) Zone (205-2700); Shahdara (North) Zone (228-2700); Najafgarh Zone (501-2700) and Narela Zone (778-1300).

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