Tag: DPCC

MCD polls: Congress promises schemes to uplift Dalits

Only Congress has been fighting for the rights and protection of the Dalits, poor and working class in Delhi. BJP and AAP have done precious little for these people. Congress would ensure implement the various schemes to uplift Dalit children with quality education.

November 28, 2022

DPCC president writes to LG drawing attention to the garbage piles across capital

In his letter to the LG, Chaudhary Anil Kumar writes, “With festivals like Deepawali and Chhath Puja at the doorstep, the cases of vector-borne diseases like Dengue, Malaria, and Chikungunya are on the rise, as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Delhi Government have not cleared the salaries and arrears of the sanitation workers and pension of the retired employees.”

October 23, 2022

Congress blames AAP Govt for death of four pavement sleepers

Had the Delhi government improved the condition of the night shelters, the homeless would not have been forced to sleep on the road dividers, said DPCC president.

September 22, 2022

SAD questions Channi over Tytler’s appointment in DPCC

In a statement, party spokesman Dr Daljit Singh Channi said the SAD was constrained to ask this question because an accusation to this effect had come from former Pradesh Congress president Sunil Jakhar.

October 31, 2021

Gopal Rai holds high-level meeting on ways to curb Delhi’s pollution

He said a team had been set up to monitor the Smog Tower project at Connaught Place, which will be completed by June.

February 20, 2021

1.66L students ‘missing’ from Delhi schools post lockdown: Anil Kumar

The DPCC president said it was a question of empowering these poor children through education, and the Delhi government and the MCDs should take the help of all the agencies to bring them back so that they could resume their "broken education".

February 14, 2021

Music legends the theme of CR Park’s ‘green’ Puja this year

Puja organisers in Chittaranjan Park's Cooperative Ground Durga Puja Samity (CGDPS) have got an eco-friendly idol for which they have been awarded in the past too.

September 26, 2019

DPCC relaxes restrictions on height of Goddess Durga Idol

With Durga Puja festivities round the corner, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) had issued an order in early July, ceiling the maximum height of idols at five feet, prompting the organizers to raise the issue with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

August 31, 2019

Delhi has not been the same since Congress lost power: Sheila Dikshit

The three-time former Delhi CM says Congress has to bring to the notice of the people what has been happening since the Congress regime lost power in Delhi, makes it clear that she is not in favour of any alliance with AAP

January 19, 2019

Tactical exit

By not taking an immediate decision on the next DPCC chief the Congress High Command is limiting the scope for a revival of the party’s fortunes

January 6, 2019

Duty evaded

For once there is reason to appreciate a politically- aimed action by the Delhi Police. It intervened to put an end to mischief that ought to have been thwarted by the leadership of the Congress party ~ the burning of a 16-headed effigy bearing images of the Prime Minister, Chief Minister of Delhi, locally-elected BJP...

October 20, 2018

NGT fines Delhi govt Rs 50 Cr for not taking action against polluting industries

The NGT also directed the Delhi government to shut these units with immediate effect.

October 16, 2018

Kejri number one in holding dharna, says DPCC chief

Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken said here on Wednesday that “Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was number one in holding dharnas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi number one in giving speeches while the Congress was the only party which was number one in providing good governance without giving flimsy excuses”. He said while the people of Delhi...

June 14, 2018

Increase environment marshals to combat air pollution: Baijal

Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Monday said the number of environment marshals should be increased in the city to combat air pollution. In a meeting chaired by him and attended by Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain and top officials of departments concerned, the detailed action plan of various agencies to combat air pollution in the...

February 6, 2018

HC seeks reply on plea for postponement of Airtel Delhi Half Marathon

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought a response from the city government, police and DPCC after receiving a letter from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) urging that the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon scheduled for November 19 be postponed due to poor air quality. Issuing notice to the Delhi government, police, Delhi Pollution Control Committee...

November 14, 2017

Rumblings, finally

It is, as yet, only a trickle that may not develop into a flood; the triggers may be essentially local. Yet, it is apt to fall back on the hackneyed cliché: even worms turn. Coming as her forceful comments did ~ just after the defection of former Congress minister in Delhi, Arvind Singh Lovely, to...

April 21, 2017