Rising garbage mountains, Delhi’s cleanliness and sanitation are all serious issues that require extensive dialogue and discussion: Durgesh Pathak
AAP has many important suggestions about MCD’s main duty of garbage management & sanitation that can prove to be game-changers: Durgesh Pathak
I’m hoping the Lieutenant General will set aside some time to talk with us about our suggestions: Durgesh Pathak
NEW DELHI:
The Aam Aadmi Party has written a letter to Delhi LG Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena seeking time to hold dialogue over ways of keeping Delhi clean and free of garbage. Giving details about the letter, AAP Senior Leader and MCD in-charge Shri Durgesh Pathak stated, “Rising garbage mountains, Delhi’s cleanliness and sanitation are all serious issues that require extensive dialogue and discussion. The AAP has a number of important suggestions for MCD’s main responsibility of garbage management and sanitation that could be game-changers. I am hoping the Lieutenant General will set aside some time to talk with us about our suggestions.”
Shri Durgesh Pathak said, “Delhi has a new Lieutenant Governor now, and I would like to begin by congratulating Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena on his new position. We hope that both the LG and the Delhi Government will join hands and work together for Delhi’s progress and development, with efficient coordination in order to give a better future to the people of Delhi. Today, I have written a letter to the LG addressing the most important responsibility of the MCD which is keeping Delhi clean, and asked him for an appointment to meet.”
He continued, “I wish to discuss two main matters in the proposed meeting – One, as we are all aware that Delhi ranked very poorly in the Swachhta Survey conducted by the Central Government – giving Delhi the status of one of the most polluted and dirty metropolitan cities in the country. We have a large number of suggestions to improve the poor condition that Delhi is in, and we would hence like to discuss this matter with the LG. My team and I have been working on these solutions for the past three years, looking up examples and researching ways on both national and international levels for better waste management and cleanliness systems, developing various plans and case-studies of successful models. The first phase of these models is timely disposal and pick-up of waste from residences in a systematic manner in order to benefit the people as well as decrease the filth on the streets of Delhi. Second is the processing of the waste after collection – all of which is currently dumped on either of the three landfill sites present in Delhi, posing another environmental and health hazard for surrounding localities. Hence, we will present our research and our solutions in front of the LG in the meeting on how to follow a time bound procedure of waste collection every day along with an effective processing mechanism in order to avoid contributing to increasing the height of the existing landfills. Along with this, we also aim to prevent the minor garbage dumps that are found lying around the city from collecting either.”
He concluded, “Hence, both my team and I wish to sit down and discuss these solutions with the new LG in order to make Delhi a cleaner city. Our purpose is to work in tandem with the LG to solve the troubles faced by the people of Delhi which come under the MCD, especially regarding the cleanliness and waste management in the state. No matter how posh or how underdeveloped a colony might be, poor waste management has caused filth and garbage to line the streets all over Delhi. We are hopeful for a very productive meeting with the LG, and expect that all the work that our team has done over the past few years brainstorming solutions will be received well. We also look forward to subsequently working with him in making Delhi a better and cleaner place to live for all residents.”