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Water Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh connected Thursday blamed the erstwhile Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities for persistent flooding successful Kirari, north-west Delhi, accusing it of neglecting sewer enactment installation for a decade.
The Minister said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities would laic the much-needed sewer lines, implicit the enactment by June, and marque Kirari escaped of waterlogging wrong a year.
The waterlogging situation successful Kirari has sparked governmental debate. Senior Congress person Rahul Gandhi had posted a video online of residents of Kirari’s Sharma Enclave wading done knee-deep sewage.
During a property conference, Mr. Singh presented videos helium claimed were filmed during the AAP’s tenure, highlighting the persistent waterlogging that plagued the area.
The Minister said that successful the Kirari Assembly constituency, which has a colonisation of 10 lakh, sewer lines were not laid until 2020. He added that aft the Lieutenant-Governor stepped in, the Delhi Jal Board started laying sewer lines successful 114 unauthorised colonies successful the area.
Mr. Singh said the deadline to implicit the enactment was December 2024, but it remained stalled owed to “administrative failures” and a “lack of coordination” nether the erstwhile government.
“Projects were sanctioned connected paper, but execution was abandoned. Contractors stopped enactment owed to non-payments, and sewage continued to travel into unfastened drains,” the Minister said.
Mr. Singh said the authorities is besides moving connected a caller stormwater drain to negociate the excess rainwater successful the area.
In response, AAP said the waterlogging successful Kirari was caused by “deliberate administrative neglect”. AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj said, “BJP-controlled DDA has, implicit the past six to 7 months, dumped garbage from the Bhalswa landfill connected vacant onshore successful Kirari, choking the area’s drainage routes and efficaciously submerging full neighbourhoods.”
