Mayor slams CM for waterlogging
Accusing the Delhi government for waterlogging after Saturday and Monday’s rains across the city during rains, the mayor of North Delhi Azad Singh termed the government of Sheila Dikshit as “insensitive towards the common man’s problems”.
After the heavy downpour on Saturday, the officials of Delhi government had asked the three mayors of three corporations to resign.
Mr Singh said the Delhi government was making false allegations against municipal corporations for waterlogging owing to its personal interest whereas the reality is poles apart.
The mayor said, “It is the Delhi government which is responsible for waterlogging in the city. If Delhi government’s irrigation and flood control department and public works department had desilted the drains falling under their jurisdiction, the city would not have witnessed waterlogging of such large scale. If these two departments had done their duties, the rainwater would have gone into the Yamuna river. Because all small drains, which are cleaned by the corporations, meet the bigger drains.”
The mayor said that he has visited 18 Assembly constituencies in the last three months.
Meanwhile, Delhi irrigation and flood control minister A.K. Walia on Tuesday decided to construct a concrete fence alongwith the Tibetan colony.
The area remains submerged in floodwater for many days during every rainy season.
Also, Taking serious note of the massive water logging in the Capital during the recent heavy rains the Comptroller and Auditor General Shashi Kant Sharma has ordered a comprehensive audit of the city’s drainage system and flood control arrangement. The audit, according to CAG sources, is to be conducted on a “priority basis”.
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