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Chief Minister Rekha Gupta flagged the achievements of her authorities implicit the past twelvemonth connected Wednesday and projected 2026 arsenic the twelvemonth of transportation for Delhi’s long-standing problems, prompting a rebuttal from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
In a video message, Ms. Gupta listed respective initiatives, including the instauration of a caller Act to shield parents from exorbitant fees charged by backstage schools, escaped aesculapian attraction of up to ₹10 lakh nether the Ayushman Bharat Yojana, and the enlargement of Atal Canteens that supply meals for ₹5. “Delhi faces galore problems and bequest issues, each of which indispensable beryllium resolved successful 2026. The twelvemonth 2025 was astir mentation and 2026 is astir taking each these efforts to their destination,” the Chief Minister said.
She said the authorities had inaugurated Delhi’s archetypal biogas works and stressed the request to found much specified facilities. Noting that Delhi besides requires dedicated e-waste absorption plants, Ms. Gupta said the process to found them has already begun. Taking a excavation astatine AAP, the Chief Minister asserted that Delhi’s landfills would beryllium eliminated adjacent year. “We indispensable destruct Delhi’s garbage mountains and enactment much efficaciously connected this issue. To those who created these garbage mountains and present talk astir their removal, I privation to accidental that successful 2026, Delhi’s garbage mountains volition beryllium eliminated,” she said.
Ms. Gupta besides claimed that her authorities had enactment an extremity to unfastened burning and bonfires successful the city, 1 of the large contributors to aerial pollution. The CM said the astir noticeable alteration had been the initiation of end-to-end carpeting of roads and the instauration of caller machinery for improved cleaning. “We enactment a halt to bonfires and unfastened burning successful Delhi and initiated galore measures that are amended for the environment,” she added.
‘Full of garbage’
The Chief Minister’s Office said that Ms. Gupta was informed that a superior expenditure program of astir ₹17,000 crore would beryllium implemented implicit the adjacent 3 years to conscionable Delhi’s rising powerfulness demands.
AAP’s Delhi State president Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged that the government had done “no existent work” since coming to powerfulness and its promises specified arsenic ₹2,500 per period for women and escaped LPG cylinders had turned retired to be “jumlas” (empty promises). He claimed backstage schoolhouse fees had risen contempt the government’s assurances of regulation. “Delhi is afloat of garbage. The end-to-end carpeting task started by the AAP has been stalled... You are trapped by your ain actions,” Mr. Bharadwaj said, accusing the authorities of “manipulating” contamination data, shutting down aerial prime scale (AQI) monitoring stations during contamination spikes, and creating a “fake Yamuna” to “fool the full country”.
