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Improving sanitation a major issue

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Keeping Delhi and Okhla clean is one of the responsibilities of every citizen. For this the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) employs about 50,000 sweepers, but they do not work. Half of them are ghost employees and draw salary without reporting on duty and eat away Rs. 500 crores of MCD funds towards salary. The pathetic condition forced one activist to approach the Supreme Court to issue directions to the MCD for action. In spite of the orders and employment of over 40 Magistrates, and huge work force sanitation continues to be poor because the sweepers are not working.

The officers of MCD suggested that as they were hauled up before the Court, similar cases should be filed in the Court of law against the errant sweepers, who are unwilling to perform their duty. Accordingly a number of cases were filed in Patiala House, Tees Hazari Rohini Courts, and Municipal Magistrates which are in progress. Besides, there are about 1100 public toilets under MCD, which remain dirty and stinking.

The only way out is that NGOs should be roped in to share at least 10 per cent of the MCD workload.

(The author is president, Nyaya Bhoomi, an NGO working for the sanitation of Delhi and other places.)
 



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