Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Shri Devender Yadav said that after the monsoon rains and water-logging caused untold suffering to people living on the Yamuna banks, unauthorized colonies, JJ Clusters, urban villages and resettlement colonies in particular where sanitation is a major casualty, cases of vector-borne diseases like Malaria, Dengue, Chikengunya and Cholera have been on the surge due to the failure of the “Triple Engine” BJP Government. He said that the accumulation of rain and drain water on the streets and in many colonies, particularly JJ clusters, urban villages and unauthorized colonies where people still wade through dirty water and children commute every day on filthy streets to go to schools, they become easy targets of vector-borne diseases, it was no surprise that Malaria cases have surged to a six-year high, and cholera cases have also increased with poor people forced to drink polluted water.Devender Yadav appealed to the Rekha Gupta Government to take urgent steps to prevent the fast spread of vector-borne diseases as despite the BJP having a “Triple Engine” Government in Delhi, no improvement in any sector has been witnessed in the Capital, which had been ruined by the misrule of the AAP Government headed by Kejriwal for over 11 years with the civic infrastructure in a devastated state.
Welfare work for the people
Devender Yadav said that after the Rekha Gupta Government assumed power over seven months ago, it has made many major announcements like cleanliness drive, repairing of the pot-holed, crumbling roads and lifting of the accumulated garbage, but sadly such promises have remained only on paper as the BJP Government’s priority has been to enhance the comforts of its leaders and Ministers and creating photo-ops for them, and not in fulfilling its election promises or doing welfare work for the people.
Big promises in its election manifesto
Devender Yadav said that BJP had made big promises in its election manifesto like upgrading the health infrastructure with the assurance that “We are committed to the implementation of the Ayushman Bharat Yojana in Delhi and up gradation of the overall healthcare infrastructure, prioritizing preventive healthcare”, but so far the Rekha Gupta Government has not been able to come up with an effective alternative to the now dysfunctional and dilapidated Mohalla Clinics. He said that Delhi’s Health Minister and the Chief Minister had promised to create Ayushman Arogya Mandirs across Delhi and as the Delhi Government’s 100-day action plan drew to a close, it had promised to inaugurate 33 new Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (AAMs) out of which 20 were to be constructed in Public Works Department (PWD) buildings, including the Delhi Secretariat, while 11 will function from Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) premises, and two in New Delhi Municipal Corporation buildings, but nothing more has since been heard about the launch of the AAMs. Devender Yadav said that lack of quick access to medical treatment has affected the poor people the most who cannot afford to get treatment in private hospitals and clinics, and with MCD’s sanitation being a major issue for worry, due to short of sanitation workers, equipment and lack of dynamic initiative to keep the city clean and green, vector-borne diseases and mounds of garbage dotting the city have affected the city the worst.
