G20 prep to be done by July 31, committees to monitor work

Each committee will comprise the district magistrate, DCP, deputy commissioner of MCD or NDMC, as the case may be, and DDA chief engineer. Eleven senior officers, including Excise Commissioner Krishna Mohan Uppu; DOE director Himanshu Gupta; Power special secretary Ravi Dhawan; and others, have been made committee coordinators.

These committees will do a gap analysis of shortcomings in general cleanliness and sanitation in their jurisdiction along with district coordinators. “Monitoring committees shall update action taken reports daily and submit a PDF to the L-G Secretariat and office of Chief Secretary, Delhi, on the e-monitoring mobile app after undertaking site visits,” read the order issued by the Secretariat on July 19 .

These decisions were taken during a meeting held on July 18 under the chairmanship of L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena. During the meeting, timelines for key projects were set and key tasks were highlighted. These include:

– Sanitation: Overall cleaning of roads and markets, to be done, no open garbage dumps to be found by the roadside, drains to be cleaned.

– Horticulture: Pots and flower beds to be ready, trees and shrubs to be pruned.

– Illegal encroachment to be removed from below flyovers/underpasses.

– Waterlogging to be prevented by accessing and fixing vulnerable points. Sufficient arrangements to be made for pumping sets.

– Roads: Repair of potholes, streetlights, kerbstones, central verge.

– Removal of hanging wires from roads and markets, cleaning defaced flyovers, metro pillars, subways, toilets, walls.

– Red Fort, Qutub Minar, Rajghat, Lotus temple and other monuments and its surrounding areas and access roads to be clean at all times.

– Power: Electrical supply in hotels in NDMC area to be checked.