[New Delhi]Ruling AAP Party Gets Delhi Assembly stalled
The three-day session of the Delhi Assembly began on a stormy note today, with the AAP legislators raising the issue of the ongoing sealing drive against properties which are allegedly in violation of municipal norms.
Speaker Ram Niwas Goel adjourned the House for 15 minutes as several AAP MLAs rushed to the Well of the House carrying placards against the BJP-ruled municipal authorities as soon as the proceedings started.
The AAP legislators, who have an overwhelming majority in the 70-member Assembly, kept raising slogans against the BJP even as Goel appealed to them to return to their seats.
After the House resumed, the AAP MLAs raised the issue again forcing the speaker to adjourn proceeding for another 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, AAP workers and traders affiliated to the party took out a march against the sealing drive from its headquarters at Rouse Avenue near central Delhi’s ITO around 1 am.
The sealing drive, which started last month, have been undertaken by the BJP-controlled civic bodies on the instruction of a Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee.
More than 50 commercial units in the posh Defence Colony Market were sealed on December 22 for “not depositing” conversions charges as per provisions in the city’s Master Plan 2021.
Subsequently, besides South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), north Delhi corporation and the New Delhi Municipal Council also sealed several properties in areas falling under their jurisdiction.
Action is being also taken against commercial properties for encroachments or illegal constructions.
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Ruling AAP Party Gets Delhi Assembly stalled
SDMC to Provide10,000 FREE Dustbins For Street Eateries
[New Delhi]SDMC to Provide 10K Free Dustbins to Street Vendors
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation will provide 10,000 free dustbins to roadside eateries, food stalls, vendors and hawkers to keep the pavements and roads clean in the civic area.
In view of the piles of rotting garbage spotted outside roadside eateries, stalls selling fast food items, vendors and hawkers selling different other items like vegetables, fruits and snacks, the municipal corporation has stuck upon the idea of providing free 10,000 dustbins to encourage cleanliness,
As per Officials ,Dustbin samples have gone for a laboratory test to ensure quality. The test report which is awaited will also give information about the areas and main markets that are going to be covered under this move,”
DDA’s Dumped Construction Material Causing Air Pollution In capital,Remove:HC
[New Delhi] DDA’s Dumped Construction Material Causing Air Pollution In capital,Remove:HC
High Court today Directed DDA To Remove rubble immediately from its land
Delhi High Court today directed DDA to ensure “immediate removal” of construction material dumped on the authority’s vacant lands in Dwarka, saying this was a major cause of air pollution in the national capital.
A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva also directed Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to ensure that people do not dump rubble or ‘malba’ on its lands at night and suggested putting in place guards or CCTV cameras to curb such practice and identify the guilty.
The court also noted that there was some improvement in the work done by South Delhi municipal corporation (SDMC) to keep the surroundings of ‘dhalaos’ (garbage dumps) clean as well as in clearing of rubbish, but said the steps taken were not “fully satisfactory”.
SDMC assured the court that it would work harder to ensure cleanliness in Dwarka sub-city and that disciplinary action would be taken against non performers.
The court also suggested to SDMC to clean the dhalaos thrice a day if they were only doing it twice a day, to which the corporation said it lacks the manpower to do so, especially now when most of its workers were on strike.
The bench, thereafter, listed the matter for further hearing on February 24.
The court was hearing a PIL filed by law students Ebbani Aggarwal and Gaurav, both Dwarka residents, on the issue of lack of cleanliness in the sub-city.
During the brief hearing, DDA told the court that the construction material was being dumped unauthorisedly and surreptitiously by local residents at night. It said it was removing the rubble as and when it came across such dumping.
SDMC said it had detected construction material at 33 DDA sites in Dwarka and informed the DDA’s chief engineer.
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