Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi writes to MCD commissioner on door-to-door garbage collection: ‘grave dereliction of duty’

In her letter, Oberoi said the negligence by waste-collecting agencies has led to the accumulation of ample piles of garbage successful aggregate localities, creating unhygienic conditions that could lend to the dispersed of diseases specified arsenic dengue. “I recovered that determination is nary door-to-door postulation happening astatine all, and piles of garbage person accumulated astatine respective points,” Oberoi said, reflecting connected her caller visits to respective areas including Lado Sarai, Madipur, Vikaspuri, Patel Nagar, Tilak Nagar, Janakpuri, Mahavir Enclave, Mohan Garden, and Bindapur.

Oberoi besides said residents person expressed their dissatisfaction with discarded postulation and coagulated discarded absorption services that are being provided by these agencies. She highlighted that door-to-door discarded postulation is not lone a mandatory contractual work but besides a statutory work of MCD nether Section 15 (b) of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, which mandates the civic assemblage to “arrange for door-to-door postulation of segregated coagulated discarded from each households including slums and informal settlements.”

She said that the deficiency of door-to-door discarded postulation is “a sedate dereliction of work by the discarded postulation agencies arsenic good arsenic acrophobic MCD officials.”

The Delhi politician directed MCD Commissioner Kumar to respond to the 4 questions wrong the adjacent 2 days. She asked if Kumar was alert of the information that discarded postulation agencies nether MCD person stopped doing regular door-to-door postulation of discarded successful galore localities of Delhi. She said that’s happening, past helium should fto her cognize astir the grade of this problem. She besides asked astir the reasons down the deficiency of show by agencies, arsenic good arsenic the measures that request to beryllium taken to tackle this issue.