The AAP government on Saturday said it will take the help of the volunteers of the Aam Aadmi Party to clear out the garbage. The government is also likely to launch a helpline for citizens to call in and inform the authorities about accumulating garbage in their area.
A senior government official said that PWD minister Satyendar Jain has formed taskforce in every district to clear out the garbage. Cabinet ministers and AAP MLAs may also join the cleanliness drive from Sunday in their respective constituencies.
“The BJP-led MCD is not capable of clearing the garbage and we will not allow the heaps of garbage in Delhi...The BJP is trying to punish the people of Delhi,” Delhi tourism minister Kapil Mishra said.
With the minister taking a dig at his party’s rival, the BJP hit back at the AAP government accusing it of playing “party politics” in not releasing money to the corporations.
In an open letter to the chief minister on Friday, Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyaya had asked Mr Kejriwal to release Rs 3,000 crores to the three municipal corporations “as per recommendations of 3rd Delhi Finance Commission (DFC)”. Mr Mishra accused the BJP-led civic bodies of indulging in a “salary scam” and not paying the sanitation workers despite Delhi government having released money for it. “(We) will make Delhi a clean city and people won’t have to face the problem this time due to the strike by sanitation workers,” he said. In October last year too, sanitation workers had gone on strike over non-payment of their salaries.
