While the Supreme Court pulled up the City Government on Friday for the garbage problem in the national Capital, the Delhi Youth Congress, along with the local Congress workers, kick-started a massive "Clean Kirari Drive" on Sunday.
Kirari, in North-West Delhi, is the largest urbanised slum in Delhi, where people live around heaps of garbage and dirty stagnant water all year round, said residents.
"Congress workers are honouring the observations made by the Supreme Court. Reeling under the impact of chikungunya, which hit almost every household of Kirari, most deprived locality of Delhi, the residents of the area have started the campaign till Chath Puja to clean Kirari on their own. Hundreds of brooms were distributed amongst the residents of Kirari and the campaign is being jointly organised by the Delhi Youth Congress and the Kirari Congress workers," said local Congress leader, Pratyush Kanth.
"More than 5,000 people joined the campaign that spread out in all the 106 resettlement colonies of Kirari. If the Arvind Kejriwal's Government has decided to neglect the poor people here, we have decided to fight against all odds and keep Kirari clean. More than 95 per cent people living here are Poorvanchalis and festivals of Diwali and Chath Puja are important for them. It is a mandatory requirement to keep dirt and filth away during these two festivals, we are just giving a helping hand to the people of Kirari, so that all of us can live in a clean environment," said Delhi Youth Congress chief, Amit Mallik.
"Kirari looks like a war zone. There is muck and filth in every corner, broken roads, stagnant water and sick people in every household. There is no clean drinking water for the residents," said Kanth.