Delhi Speaker nominates AAP's Vinay Mishra as Vice Chairman of Delhi Jal Board
Sep 25, 2024
New Delhi [India], September 25 : Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Wednesday nominated Aam Aadmi Party MLA Vinay Mishra as Vice Chairman of Delhi Jal Board.
Speaker also nominated MLA Ajay Dutt and MLA Preeti Jitender Tomar as the member of the Delhi Jal Board.
Vinay Mishra is part of the Delhi Legislative Assembly from Dwarka constituency. He was elected as an MLA in 2020 winning the seat with 71,003 votes. He has done Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM).
Earlier today, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena's secretariat wrote to the Chief Secretary of Delhi asking him to take necessary steps to lay all the pending CAG reports during the ensuing Assembly session. Delhi Assembly is set to hold a two-day session on September 26 and 27.The LG secretariat also asked the Chief Secretary to bring the pendency of the same to the attention of the CM and request her action in this regard.
On Monday, Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Public Work Department (PWD), New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), Irrigation and Command Area Development (I&CAD) and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to take up a dust-free Delhi drive over the next one week or ten days and asked the same drive to be converted into a year-long campaign.
LG has advised MCD and PWD to clean the roads, and not leave dust accumulated on the road, transport it to designated dumping sites.
Similarly, agencies responsible for cleaning drains and sewer lines, viz., MCD, I&FCD, and DJB, have been asked to coordinate and get the silt or mud picked up and disposed of.
Saxena emphasised that even if it rains, the exercise of removing the wet mud or silt from the roads should be continued to ensure that they do not flow into drains and sewer lines, in the process choking them.
The departments have been asked to immediately deploy teams and record the work undertaken through "before and after" pictures and videos. The status of ongoing works will be regularly provided to the LG Secretariat and Saxena will review the status after completion of the first phase of the Dust-free Delhi exercise.
