In order to highlight various shortcomings of the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun, Councillors of the Congress party met the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari, Ashok Kumar at MCD on Saturday.
Chief Spokesperson of Congress in the MCD, Jagdish Dhiman alleged that the sanitation and cleanliness work in the city is getting deteriorated and the MCD is not capable of handling the responsibility properly. He added that the project of the DVWM the company hired by MCD has also proved to be a big failure as the responsible officers are not performing their duties timely.
The door-to-door campaign of the DVWM is not done on regular basis affecting the sanitation of the city. Agitated with this lethargic attitude of the MCD official’s, Councillors of the Congress met with MNA and elaborated these shortcomings of MCD. They also gave maximum one week deadline to the MCD to resolve this issue. Meanwhile, councilors also asked the MNA for the construction of atleast two mobile toilets for females in the major market areas of the city.
In reply, MNA instructed nodal officer, Ravi Pandey to look into this matter and also asked the responsible supervisors to present the progressive report of all the 60 wards of the city. Among those present on the occasion were leader of the Opposition, Nenu Sehgal, Chief Spokesperson of Congress in MCD, Jagdish Diman, Senior Councillor, Dr Vijendra Pal, Vinay Kohli, Ramesh Botola, Nikhil Kumar, Sanjeev Malhotra and Ashok Kohli.