Delhi HC pulls up MCDs, asks to streamline sanitation work

New Delhi: Lambasting the three municipal corporations for their “lack of will to work”, the Delhi high court on Tuesday asked them to streamline the duties of safai karamcharis to ensure regular removal of garbage from the city roads.

A bench of acting chief justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar suggested installing of biometric attendance system and use of instant messaging application like WhatsApp to ensure the presence of safai karamcharis for cleanliness in the area they are entrusted with.

“There is a lacuna in assigning of the work to the safai karamcharis and their presence on the spot. Try and streamline a process through which those present at the site can send the picture of the area they have cleaned. They be also asked to put their attendance on the biometric machines, twice or thrice a day.

“You regulate their working hours, there will be visible difference in Delhi today and tomorrow,” the bench said, adding that “because of your lack of will to work, people of Delhi cannot be made to suffer from malaria, dengue and chikungunya”.

The bench made the observation while asking the MCDs that if they were ensuring proper work, why was so much garbage seen on the city roads. It also said the supervisors should personally keep a tab on the safai karamcharis, so that they perform their duties.