A miffed Delhi High Court today slammed the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) for "not doing anything" to keep Lajpat Nagar clean despite a direction and said the civic body was not concerned about the people.
"You are right. They have not done anything, not doing anything and will not do anything," a bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva said, and added that the corporation was not concerned about the people.
The observation was made in response to an NGO's claim that SDMC has not done anything to keeping Lajpat Nagar clean as per the court's direction on March 18.
NGO Nyay Bhoomi's representative B B Sharan told the court there were "deficiencies" in the working of the municipality which has not even properly cleaned the drains which are three-fourths full with rubble.
Sharan suggested sending the errant officials of SDMC to jail, in response to which the court said, "Maybe we will".
The court noted that SDMC till date has not filed a "comprehensive" affidavit and directed the corporation to do so "positively" before the next date of hearing on May 20.
It also noted that once monsoon starts, the problem of waterlogging would also start.
The proxy counsel appearing on behalf of SDMC said no affidavit was filed due to ongoing strike by high court lawyers.
The court then said that it was the citizens who suffer as a result of the strikes..
The court on March 18 had directed SDMC and other civic bodies to start cleaning, from March 19, the entire Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi and to maintain it that way as a "test" of their "efficiency and ability" to keep the city clean.
