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Government of NCT of Delhi

DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION & PUBLICITY
GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI
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• Home & PWD Minister orders crackdown over lack of cleanliness in various parts of Delhi
• DMs issue 178 conditional orders seeking explanations from MCD officials
• Lack of cleanliness and hygiene issues around dhalaos will not be tolerated

Dated : 05/6/2016

Following directions from the Home & PWD minister Mr Satyendar Jain, the District Magistrates of respective districts of Delhi have so far issued 178 conditional orders under section 133 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to the concerned officials of the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi (MCDs) for unsatisfactory cleanliness and hygienic conditions in areas under their jurisdiction, particularly the dhalaos.

Section 133 CrPC empowers a District Magistrate/Sub Divisional Magistrate/Executive Magistrate to issue a conditional order on the basis of complaints or otherwise for removal of nuisance from any public place that may be injurious to the health or physical comfort of the public.

This provision in criminal law also makes it clear that that in case the DM is satisfied to invoke this section for the health safety of general public and its good, then it cannot be challenged even in the court of law.

District-wise conditional orders issued to the MCDs for insanitary conditions are as follows :

North West 32

North 26
North East 15
East 32
South East 18
South 15
South West 14
West 26
 

With these orders, it is clear that the concerned officials of the three MCDs will have to provide reasonable explanations for the lack of satisfactory cleanliness and hygienic conditions in their areas of respective jurisdictions, failing which further legal action will be initiated.

Delhi government will not tolerate any laxity in the discharge of duty for keeping the national capital clean, which has suffered due to the negligence of the MCDs.

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