LG sets up 11 monitoring panels for G20 projects

Lieutenant governor VK Saxena formed 11 monitoring committees headed by Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers to oversee work related to the G20 summit in each of the city’s 11 districts, including the New Delhi Municipal Council area, according to documents seen by HT.

- Alok KN Mishra

 

The Capital is scheduled to host the G20 leaders’ summit from September 9-10, which is expected to include the heads of states of the world’s 20 largest economies. A massive exercise is underway to tidy up the city’s landscape, with roads being relaid, urban greenery being spruced up, and civic infrastructure fixed and overhauled.

The committees will review and address shortcomings in these areas, with a focus on cleanliness, sanitation, and civic utility upkeep. Each committee comprises an IAS officer, who will be the coordinator, a district magistrate (DM), a deputy commissioner of police, a deputy commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) or a secretary of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), and a chief engineer of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). The decision to constitute the monitoring committees was taken after a meeting chaired by the LG on Tuesday. The panels have been directed to then submit an action taken report on the Delhi e-monitoring app within 48 hours since the order was issued. The coordinators have been asked to submit the reports every Monday and Thursday on the app, after site visits, the order issued on Wednesday said.