‘Initiate Dust-Free Delhi Drive In Next 7 Days’: LG VK Saxena Orders Officials As Winters Approach

New Delhi: Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Monday asked the sanitation and municipal corporations working in the national capital to take up a dust-free Delhi drive over the 7 or 10 days and asked the same drive to be converted into a year-long campaign.

Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Public Work Department (PWD), New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), Irrigation and Command Area Development (I&CAD) and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) have been instructed to take up the drive

LG has advised MCD and PWD to clean the roads, and not leave dust accumulated on the road, transport it to designated dumping sites.

“Similarly, agencies responsible for cleaning drains and sewer lines, viz., MCD, I&FCD, and DJB, have been asked to coordinate and get the silt or mud picked up and disposed of,” according to an official statement released by LG Secretariat.  

Saxena emphasized that even if it rains, the exercise of removing the wet mud or silt from the roads should be continued so as to ensure that they do not flow into drains and sewer lines, in the process choking them.

The departments have been asked to immediately deploy teams and record the work undertaken through "before and after" pictures and videos. The status of ongoing works will be regularly provided to the LG Secretariat and Saxena will review the status after completion of the first phase of the Dust-free Delhi exercise.