Lambasting the three municipal corporations here for their “lack of will to work”, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked them to streamline the duties of safai karamcharis to ensure regular removal of garbage from the city roads.
A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar suggested installing of biometric attendance system and use of instant messaging application like WhatsApp to ensure the presence of workers to clean the area they are entrusted with.
“You regulate their working hours, there will be visible difference in Delhi today and tomorrow,” the Bench said, adding “because of your lack of will to work, people of Delhi cannot be made to suffer from malaria, dengue and chikungunya“.
The Bench made the observation while asking the civic bodies that if they were ensuring proper work, why was so much garbage seen on the roads.
