In order to tackle dust pollution, South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has purchased 55 vehicles including mechanical road sweepers, 17 tractors with water tankers and super sucker machines.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs Durga Shankar Mishra along with Tarun Kapoor, Vice Chairman of Delhi Development Authority (DDA) flagged off these vehicles from SDMC headquarters on Tuesday.
The move will enable SDMC to intensify swachchhta related activities and water sprinkling exercise for ensuring the national Capital clean and pollution free, a senior SDMC official said.
Mishra said that Rs 12.64 cr was provided by his Ministry under Swachh Bharat Mission to procure the vehicles. Complementing SDMC, he said that the civic body is putting the best efforts to control pollution.
“The Swachchhta Abhiyaan has become a people’s movement due to the efforts of urban local bodies. In last five years, SDMC’s ranking improved from 185 to 27 this year. Similarly, the civic body should strive hard to improve Swachchhta Abhiyan ranking and be in the top 10 swachchh cities of India,” he said.
SDMC Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti said that SDMC is taking new initiative and reforms under the guidance of urban development ministry and trying to provide the best of the civic services to its citizens.
He said that in last few years with the support of Urban Development Ministry SDMC has purchased different machineries including mechanical road sweepers and water tankers.
Bharti further said that with induction of the new road mechanical, water tankers, super sucker machine, SDMC will be able to provide relief to the residents who are presently facing problems due to polluted air.
Commissioner said that we have procured two innovative and high-tech super sucker machine costing Rs 4.90 Cr which is probably best in the country.
“The super sucker units have a main super sucker machine and two dump trucks and these will be deployed to clean the inaccessible location such as covered drains, piped drains culvers and other bottlenecks of the drainage system that are partially or fully silted remain unattended through conventional means because of safety and various other aspects,” he said.
Besides, 26 CNG powered LCV trucks have been procured at the cost of Rs 3.02 Cr and they will used by the maintenance division for transportation of malba and other related works, he added.
On the occasion Standing Committee Chairman Bhupender Gupta, Leader of House Kamaljeet Sehrawat and other senior officials and councilors were present.