The Hindu 08.08.2012
New water-logging helpline
The Delhi Government has set up a centralised control
room to deal with reports of water-logging in the Capital under which
complaints about it on telephone number 011-23490323 will be addressed
with 30 minutes of receiving them.
The Government revealed this information in an affidavit which it is likely to file in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday.
It
has made this submission in response to a public interest litigation by
non-government organisation Antarrashtriya Manav Adhikar Nigrani
Parishad seeking directions to the agencies concerned to deal with
water-logging in the Capital.
The affidavit further
said that it had received from the Delhi Traffic Police a list of
vulnerable points which were considered prone to water-logging for
de-silting and cleaning of drains and making available water pumps.
Meanwhile,
in a related matter, a Division Bench of the Court directed the
Capital’s municipal bodies to file status reports within a week about
the steps taken by them to de-silt drains to prevent water-logging
during the monsoon.
A Division Bench of the Court
comprising Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Vipin Sanghi passed
the direction on a petition by a non-government organisation seeking
contempt of court proceedings against officers of the civic bodies for
their alleged violation of the July 11 order of the Court asking them to
file status reports about the steps they had taken for de-silting
drains to prevent water-logging.
The petitioner Nyaya
Bhoomi submitted that the civic bodies had taken no steps to de-silt
drains and neither had they filed status reports as directed by the
Court.
