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New Delhi Sep 23 PTI The three mayors in Delhi spelt out a vision for the capital on Thursday promising to make the city garbage-free in few months planting more trees and running an intensive week-long campaign next month to keep vector-borne diseases under controlAt a press conference held at the Civic Centre North Delhi Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh South Delhi Mayor Mukesh Suryan and East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal concurred that making Delhi dhalo-free in the next six months was the shared goal of three civic bodies ahead of the municipal elections due in 2022Dhalaos or garbage dump yards are traditionally designated places from where sanitation workers collect garbage deposited by peopleHowever efforts have been made by three civic bodies to reduce the number of such yards and instead carry out door-to-door garbage collection and other means to make the city look cleanerWe have already installed 70 compactors and closed 300 dhalaos And our vision is to soon make north Delhi dhalao-free a statement quoting North Delhi Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh saidEast Delhi Mayor Aggarwal said a number of initiatives are lined up till October first week under the BJPsSewa Hi Samarpan programme from September 17-October 7 to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modis birthday which fell on September 17Other two mayors said all three corporations shared the vision for a better DelhiSuryan said the municipal corporations have aimed to make Delhi garbage free in the next six months and the Fixed Compactor Transfer Station FCTS system is being installed at all dhalaosThe NDMC as part of this vision will also carry out intensive sanitation drive to make the city cleaner and lend it a more aesthetic look a senior official saidA campaign will be started on a large scale by the north corporation with rallies events fogging drives being part of it from October 2-7 to keep vector-borne diseases like malaria chikungunya and dengue under control the North Delhi mayor saidOver 50 fresh cases of dengue have been reported in the national capital in the last one week taking the total count this year to more than 210 according to a civic report released on MondayIn this month alone 87 cases have been recorded till September 18 which is about 41 per cent of the cumulative casesSouth Delhi mayor Suryan said a special drive will be carried out between September 25 and October 2 to ensure complete ban on use of single-use plasticBesides plan is also to establish eight model schools under the SDMC and a massive drive will be conducted to check vector-borne diseases he was quoted as saying in the statementTo address issues related to the people a special programme RWA Ki Baat Parshad Ke Sath has been started where RWAs can put their issue before the councillor he addedNorth Delhi Mayor Singh also said the NDMC will also launch on October 2 an awareness campaign with the officials of RWA and market associations to discourage use of single-use plastic in daily life Also the AYUSH department of the civic body would conduct yoga classes for citizens and classes on hypertension he addedEast Delhi Mayor Agarwal said our plan is to close all dhalaos in the next six months adding out of about 300 dhalaos 50 have been closedHe said the EDMC has a plan to set up 37 compactor plants out of which 16 plants have been installed and four are functioningAggrawal also said a target has been set to eliminate the legacy waste from the Ghazipur landfill site by 2024 and in this direction the EDMC has so far reduced the height of the garbage mountain by 15 mAs in July 2020 theheight of the mound was 40 feet The landfill was started in 1984Aggarwal also said the EDMC will run Say No to Single-us Plastic campaign from September 25 to October 2 in all the wards under the leadership of its councillors Under this campaign waste plastic will be collected and local residents will be made aware about the ill effects of plastic he added PTI KND TDS TDS

New Delhi Sep 23 PTI The three mayors in Delhi spelt out a vision for the capital on Thursday promising to make the city garbage-free in few months planting more trees and running an intensive campaign starting next month to keep vector-borne diseases under controlAt a press conference held at the Civic Centre North Delhi Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh South Delhi Mayor Mukesh Suryan and East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal concurred that making Delhi dhalo-free soon was the shared goal of three civic bodies ahead of the municipal elections due in 2022Dhalaos or garbage dump yards are traditionally designated places from where sanitation workers collect garbage deposited by peopleHowever efforts have been made by three civic bodies to reduce the number of such yards and instead carry out door-to-door garbage collection to make the city look cleanerWe have already installed 70 compactors and closed 300 dhalaos And our vision is to soon make north Delhi dhalao-free North Delhi Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh was quoted as saying in a statementOther two mayors said the south corporation and the east corporation also shared the vision for a better DelhiSuryan said the municipal corporations have aimed to make Delhi garbage free in the next sixmonths and the Fixed Compactor Transfer Station FCTSsystem is being installed at all dhalaosThe NDMC as part of this vision will also carry out intensive sanitation drive to make the city cleaner and lend it a more aesthetic look a senior official saidAn anti-dengue campaign will be started on a large scale by the north corporation with rallies events fogging drives being part of it from October 2 to keep vector-borne diseases like malaria chikungunya and dengue under control he saidOver 50 fresh cases of dengue have been reported in the national capital in the last one week taking the total count this year to more than 210 according to a civic report released on MondayIn this month alone 87 cases have been recorded till September 18 which is about 41 per cent of the cumulative cases PTI KND TDS TDS