Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena and the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal  on Friday discussed a range of issues, including imparting training and distribution of machinery for making cow dung logs, cotton wicks, diyas etc. from cow dung which will promote women empowerment.

This move will improve the financial condition of women, prevent clogging of drains by deterring dung disposal and will also provide additional income to farmers and dairy owners.

According to the statement released by the LG office, Saxena invoked training and distribution of machinery for making cow dung logs, cotton wicks, diyas etc. from cow dung, which would lead to empowerment of women, financial gains and prevent clogging of drains by deterring dung disposal.

This would also provide additional income to farmers and dairy owners. The LG underlined that the cow dung logs thus created could be used as an alternative to wood for cremation purposes. It would in the process save trees from being cut to this end and address environmental concerns, the statement said.

The LG stated that Gobar was being successfully used for the production of paint, emulsion and distemper. However, the CM said that a team of officers would visit Jaipur to see and learn the processes in order to replicate the same in Delhi as well as in Punjab, it said.

“Saxena brought up the issue of skill training and distribution of enabling toolkits to 75,000 unskilled and semi-skilled workers in the unorganized sectors like pottery, carpentry, shoe-making and blacksmithery etc, with the aim of bringing the most marginalised in the main stream of development,” the statement read.

“This, the CM dwelling on his own experience in the sector, agreed would bring about much-needed empowerment and livelihood enhancement of the targeted segments. It was agreed by LG and CM to immediately start work for the identification of individual and group beneficiaries for the roll out of this program,” it said. 

“During the meeting, they further discussed the problem of water scarcity in the capital city and stressed upon a sustainable way forward in order to make the city self-sufficient in meeting its water requirements. 

It was decided that a meeting of all concerned departments will be held in by the LG and CM on Tuesday, wherein the officers will be asked to present their concrete plans for the purpose of absorbing rain water and prevent water-logging, apart from recharging the water table,” it read.

Apart from the above, the LG and CM also discussed about upgrading of infrastructural support and public amenities at cremation grounds and decided to take immediate steps to ensure betterment.

They also discussed about  preparations and rollout of special cleanliness and sanitation drive that they will jointly launch and monitor.