Indian Express 16.04.2010
MCD wants radiation detection equipment
Express News Service Tags : radioactive radiation, corporation Posted: Friday , Apr 16, 2010 at 0158 hrs
New delhi: After the recent radiation leak at the Mayapuri scrap market, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has written to the Delhi government asking it to install radiation detection equipment at all seven borders of the Capital.The letter to the government got the nod of the Corporation members during the Standing committee meeting on Thursday.
“Delhi has no radiation detection equipment at the borders at present thus making the movement of hazardous substances easy. The Corporation also too has no team equipped to detect radiation sources. Thus we decided to write to the government,” Leader of MCD House Subhash Arya said.
The MCD is also mulling the need of a scrap inspection policy. “The policy will create awareness about harmful wastes. We will issue guidelines about junk items that can be useful and disastrous,” MCD Standing Committee chairperson Ram Kishan Singhal said. He added from now on municipal inspectors, who check licences of merchants, will be equipped to detect the presence of radioactive substance in a market
