Rekha Gupta Leads Delhi Cleanliness Drive, Warns Politicians Against Defacement
PWD has assigned engineers to Ring Road sections for fortnight-long cleaning oversight.
Overview
- During a Sewa Pakhwada event in Shalimar Bagh, the chief minister removed posters from a Ring Road flyover pillar and joined a tree-planting effort.
- She called defacement a crime and urged politicians to stop pasting posters with her photograph, stressing that cleanliness should be a daily effort.
- The PWD divided the 55-km Ring Road into eight sections and appointed an engineer-in-charge for each to supervise cleaning and repairs for the next two weeks.
- Delhi BJP leaders, ministers and workers participated in the campaign, with the party reporting clean-ups at 71 locations including flyovers along Ring Road.
- The government permitted loudspeakers at Ramlila, Durga Puja and related festivities until midnight from September 22 to October 3 with the lieutenant governor’s approval.