The Hindu         10.10.2014  

Civic bodies’ cleanliness drive extends to PWD, DSIIDC roads

Public roads, irrespective of the owning agencies, are being cleaned by the municipal corporations of Delhi as part of their sanitation drive under the Swachh Bharat campaign.

A senior North Delhi Municipal Corporation official said the civic body was covering areas that had been neglected earlier. Due to the additional coverage, the three municipal corporations have been able to increase their garbage collection by 20 per cent in the past 10 days.

“We are now reaching areas that we weren’t earlier. The road could be of the Public Works Department, the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation or any other agency. We are doing the sweeping as well as removing construction debris,” said the official.

Similar works are being carried out by the South and East civic bodies. “Cleaning all public roads is our duty under the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act and we have been doing it in the past. Now, we have started removing debris from empty plots too,” said South Delhi Municipal Corporation Manish Gupta.

The civic bodies are also issuing challans against those responsible for insanitation.

SDMC has challaned DDA for dumping debris on a PWD road in Dwarka Sector-7. It imposed the penalty after removing the construction material from the spot