Showcase clean Delhi during Games 2010, Walia tells MCD
January 5th, 2010 - 11:44 pm ICT by IANS ( 1 comment )New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) To present a clean and garbageless Delhi during the Commonwealth Games (CWG) to be held in October, the state government Tuesday asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to prepare a “target based short-term action plan to collect, transport and treat solid waste” of the city.
In a meeting with MCD leaders and officials Tuesday, Delhi’s Finance Minister A.K. Walia directed the civic authority to bring more area of national capital under the door-to-door garbage collection scheme.
“Much more is required to be done to strengthen the work of transportation and collection of solid waste management from Delhi,” Walia said in an official statement here.
He told the civic authority that garbage should not be visible on the roads and around colonies, as a large number of tourists and visitors, including foreigners, would be in the city during the Games.
“Delhi Mayor Kanwar Sain, who was also at the meeting, informed that they are starting their fleet of mechanical sweepers and intend to undertake sweeping twice a day in Delhi,” the statement said.
Delhi generates around 8,000 tonnes of garbage every day and as the present landfill sites at Okhla, Bhalaswa and Ghazipur are filled to capacity, the problem of waste disposal is turning complex.
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January 16th, 2010 at 11:37 am
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI / DELHI GOVT. : PLEASE DO SOMETHING , ATLEAST DO SOMETHING IN THE NAME OF COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2010
The pathetic state of public toilets was highlighted by Shahana Sheikh, a final year student of economics at the Lady Sri Ram (LSR) College, who undertook a tour of slums and the outskirts of Delhi from May to July 2008.”
” “A man has options but a woman can’t urinate in the open as that is deemed ‘uncultured’. The issue of public toilets affects women the most, especially poor women,” Sheikh had said. ”
PLEASE SEE THE “S” BLOCK OF OKHLA INDUSTRIAL AREA PHASE II , NEW DELHI WHERE WOMEN OF SANJAY COLONY SLUM HAVE NO OPTION BUT TO USE 45 FT ROAD (INFRONT OF FACTORIES ) AS OPEN TOILET.
WITH THE HELP OF JAPANESE AID MCD HAS BUILD TOILET IN THE MIDDLE OF 45 FT ROAD IN THE “S” BLOCK OF OKHLA INDUSTRIAL AREA PHASE II NEW DELHI.NEEDLESS TO MENTION THE RIGHT OF WAY OF FACTORIES OF “S” BLOCK IS GIVEN LEAST IMPORTANCE BY MCD / DELHI GOVT.