Cong unveils waste management roadmap; blames BJP, AAP for sanitation woos

Ananya Panda

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 26

The Congress on Sunday criticised the central government under the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi for the city’s sanitation woos.

Top Congress leaders, including former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh and Parliamentarian PC Chacko, besides DPCC chief Ajay Maken and Sharmistha Mukherjee, came together ahead of civic elections to release the party’s plan for solid waste. With focus on environment, the party proposed a zero landfill policy, distribution of blue and green bins to households for waste segregation and promotion of tree plantation as part of its plan.

Maken blamed the BJP and the AAP for sanitation workers’ strike.

The party proposes to enlist the help of Resident Welfare Associations in its clean Delhi campaign and tax rebate on commercial property for appropriate waste management.