The Delhi High Court on Wednesday decided to hear the plea of residents of a south Delhi colony relating to waterlogging in their area. Appearing before the bench of acting Chief Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru, the Residents Welfare Association (RWA) of South Extension-II showed video clips and newspaper photographs of waterlogged roads and damaged drains in the area requesting the court to take up the matter on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the court has asked residents to file an application before it along with the video clips and newspaper photographs.Earlier, while hearing the PIl, the High Court had pulled up the civic agencies and other public bodies for their failure to stop waterlogging in the city during the rains and had asked their heads to depute officers to take care of the work and to hold them accountable.
The bench had asked each Commissioner of the trifurcated MCD to make their Deputy Commissioners responsible to take steps to prevent waterlogging in their respective zones and in cases of failure, the heads would take disciplinary action against the officers responsible.
Similarly, the bench had asked the Public Works Department (PWD) to
make their Superintendent Engineers in each circle responsible and accountable for ensuring that the work is carried out.
The court had also expressed anguish over the failure of the civic agencies to de-silt the storm water drains in compliance with its previous order and asked Delhi Government’s Urban Development Secretary to file an affidavit indicating status of de-silting of the drains.