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Come Saturday and you will find the netas of the Aam Aadmi Party sitting on the streets and resolving your complaints.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced that from Saturday, he and his six cabinet colleagues would sit outside the Delhi Secretariat to resolve people’s grievances. They will be available between 9.30 and 11 am from Saturday.
“From Saturday, I and all the six ministers of AAP will sit across the Secretariat…I will sit only on Saturdays… Anyone can approach us with their matters,” Kejriwal said. He added that from Sunday, one minister of his cabinet will sit outside the Delhi government office and take up issues of all the departments.
Kejriwal said he would clear “urgent grievances” on the spot and other problems would be sorted depending on how serious the issue was. He conceded those requiring change of policy might take time. Even issues related to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Delhi Police, would be taken up by the government. The CM does not have direct power over these bodies.
"The Lieutenant Governor has written a letter to these bodies that they will have to take up public grievances," Kejriwal said.
A monitoring system has also been set up through which an SMS will be sent to a citizen on whether the grievance has been resolved by the authority or not. A team of volunteers will look into cases which did not receive satisfactory feedback.
Kejriwal said the government had received 3,904 calls in the first five hours of its inception, of which 53 were related to corruption.
“Let me tell you that people of Delhi are good anti-corruption police inspectors and sting journalists…We have already received a few stings and a few teams are inspecting them,” Kejriwal said.
The Delhi government had on Wednesday launched an anti-graft helpline number to address the corruption-related matters, fulfilling one of the few promises it had made to the Delhi citizens. The Delhi CM had said it was not a complaint number but a helpline number where people would be assisting in carrying out stings and later on, can also produce the stings by contacting the same number. A four-digit helpline number would also be announced by Friday or Saturday, Kejriwal said.
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KEJRIWAL ON DELHI LOK AYUKTA BILL
“A committee under the chairmanship of the chief secretary has been set up to draft the law… We will pass it by January-end or February at the Ramlila Maidan”
ON FREQUENT LOAD SHEDDING IN THE CAPITAL
"I have told the power companies to provide data on scheduled and unscheduled load shedding… A citizen helpline number would also be brought out in this regard… If power cuts are not legitimate, companies will be held accountable”
ON SUPPLY OF WATER
"We are doing mapping of the entire city... In areas where there are no pipelines, water will be supplied through water tanks... information will soon be dispatched on timing of these water tanks in various areas"
