Accusing the Delhi Government of being “apathetic” towards solving the “perennial” problem of water-logging issue in the national Capital, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) Mayor said the AAP Government never took the matter seriously resulted in heavy traffic jams all around the city and loss of property and lives.
SDMC Mayor Anamika said keeping in view the expected rainfall in this monsoon season all agencies should have worked in tandem to tackle the problem.
While talking about the financial condition of SDMC, she said that the corporation has exploited all possible revenue generation sources to deal with the situation and trying to make the south corporation self sustainable rather expecting financial assistance from the Delhi Government.
North Mayor Jai Prakash said before the monsoon North DMC held a meeting with the officials of the PWD, DSIIDC and flood control and irrigation department to check the preparedness and they “falsely” claimed that work of removing silt from the drains had been completed by them.
While North Corporation has already desilted 166 kilometers of and extracted 11,000 metric tonnes of silt, he said, adding that 154 additional pumps have also been deployed by the corporation at vulnerable points.
East Corporation has also desilted 58,000 metric tonnes of silt from 223 drains under the corporation.
