The Hindu 26.07.2010
Will remove malba within four weeks, claims MCD
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: To ensure removal of unclaimed debris or malba from various parts of the Capital as directed by Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has said that it would be providing trucks and additional labour to each of its 272 councillors to remove all malba within four weeks.
Leader of the MCD House Subhash Arya clarified that the civic body would be responsible for removal of malba only from the areas under its jurisdiction.
Mr. Arya said: “We were already getting construction malba removed from our construction sites through our contractors and now we will also be taking charge of unclaimed malba from colonies. However, we will not be removing malba from areas where the projects of the Public Works Department are being implemented. There PWD contractors will be responsible for malba removal from those sites.”
“To implement the plan of malba removal we have set a timeline of four weeks. Each councillor will be provided with a minimum of one truck and two to three labourers which may be increased according to the need to oversee removal of all unclaimed malba from their areas to the 172 sites identified by the civic body for dumping of such construction malba,” he added.
Dumping points
However, the civic body is finding the process of identifying malba dumping points difficult in the 1,700 unauthorised colonies where there is no space for malba to be deposited. “These colonies lack space with no roads, parks or dhalaos to dump malba in. So to overcome this problem we have combined such areas with a nearby ward where space is available,” Arya added.
MCD Standing Committee chairman Yoginder Chandolia also said to implement the debris removal plan of the civic body it had already provided its councillors with a sum of Rs. 1 lakh prior to the MCD sanitation drive which was on from July 1 to July 15.
