Need to Clean Up Dirty Delhi: Urban Affairs Minister
An Indian Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said Sunday that the national capital of Delhi is among the major global cities of the world and it needs to be clean to be worthy of that status.
Puri said a good portion of the Rs. 300 crore sanctioned by his ministry for the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi would be spent on procuring mechanized sewer cleaners.
He expressed serious concern over sanitation workers dying while manually cleaning clogged sewers in the national capital.
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Participating in ‘Swacchata Hi Sewa’ campaign organized by the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) at India Gate in Delhi on Sunday, the Minister stressed the need for mechanized cleaning of sewers.
He said his concern over unsafe and manual cleaning of sewers was shared by the Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal who met him on Tuesday last week.
Puri appealed to the citizens of Delhi and other agencies like hotels not to dump garbage in to sewers so as to prevent their clogging.
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“We should give up the attitude of we litter and others would clean,” the Minister said and called for ensuring segregation of waste at source on a war footing in the national capital.
The minister stated that the ongoing ‘Swacchata Hi Sewa’ campaign, started on the 15th of September, has proved to be a trigger towards making the country clean.
He informed that over 80 lakh (8 million) citizens have participated in this campaign in the urban areas of the country. A total of over 3.5 lakh mass action campaigns have been taken up so far, he said.
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