Nearly 38000 complaints received in 10 days via 'Swachch Delhi' mobile app

How clean is the capital New Delhi? Nearly 38,000 complaints have been made by the public over 10 days via the 'Swachch Delhi' mobile app since its launch. The municipal corporations claim to have attended to 75 percent of the grievances.
THis has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 30 November 2015.

The 'Swachch Delhi Abhiyan' is a sanitation-cum-cleanliness drive that sought to rid the city of garbage and construction material waste and it had been launched on November 22 and concluded on Monday. The campaign had brought Centre, the AAP government and the BJP-led corporations on one platform because cleanliness is a common cause.
The three municipal bodies in Delhi -- North, South and East Corporations -- had received about 37,963 complaints related to garbage lying on roads, streets, residential colonies and other public places through the app.
South Delhi received around 14,485 complaints via the app and they took action on more than 8,828 of them.
East Delhi received over 12,000 complaints and about 75-80 per cent of them were responded and the garbage was collected.
North Delhi received around 11,478 complaints and close to 80 per cent of them (8,992) were replied and action was taken.
Daily garbage collection in Delhi is normally 3,200 metric tonne and it has risen to over 3500 metric tonne per day while the 'malba' collection also increased by over 15 per cent.

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Members of the local morning-walkers' association and NGO Concern for Kolkata are disappointed that, in spite of a drive to clean the Rabindra Sarobar (Dhakuria Lake), there continues to be rampant piling up of garbage consisting of empty food packets, plastic tea cups, bottles and sundry other trash.
This has negated a year-long effort by locals even though they had some 80 staff of the Kolkata Improvement Trust (KIT) to clean the garbage. The staff is seldom seen nowadays and, therefore, the vigil against littering and plastics has collapsed.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 6 October 2015.

The initiative had worked very well for the first few months, but, with the disappearance of the KIT staff, the vigil began to fall off.
The KIT has more than 70 staff, but, only 5-6 of them are engaged for cleaning it is impossible for six people to keep a 190-acre area clean and plastic-free. Added is the menace of hawkers – no other park in the city permits hawkers to enter and, in spite of a court order, they have a field day. And, they are responsible to generate garbage.
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