In order to ensure a better coordination among various civic agencies and to avoid blame game, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Friday brought all the stakeholders responsible for maintenance of civic amenities in the city on a single platform to discuss the issues and work in “tandem”.
A senior NMC official said that various issues related to proper and timely solid waste management to avoid collection of water in waste, disposable plastic material, desilting of drains, provision of lids and repair of over head tanks in Government office complexes and residential colonies, provision of emergency beds in hospitals, control of mosquito breeding in empty tyres kept at all Delhi Transport Corporation bus depots and organising workshops to create awareness to prevent vector borne diseases were discussed.
The inter-sectoral coordination committee meeting was conducted under the chairmanship of NMC Commissioner Madhup Vyas. It was attended by concerned officials of various government agencies such as Delhi Development Authority, Public Works Department, Flood and Irrigation Department, Delhi Jal Board, DTC, Delhi Police and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. Besides, Additional Commissioner (Health) R S Meena, Municipal Health officer Dr A K Bansal, Engineer-in-Chief Vijay Prakash, Chief Engineer Naurang Singh and other senior officials of NMC were also present.
The official said that representatives of the PWD, Flood and Irrigation Department, DMRC and Delhi Jal Board were requested to ensure proper arrangement and coordination amongst the departments to control to reduce the menace of vector borne diseases. He further said that municipal health officer Dr A K Bansal gave a short presentation explaning reasons for dengue outbreak and suggested measures to prevent it. “A short documentary on life cycle of mosquito which causes dengue was also played,” he said.
On June 7, South Delhi Municipal Corporation also held a similar meeting and asked all agencies to take “pro-active actions work in tandem and avoid blame game”.