A garbage truck of the civic body hit a motorcyclist at the Jasola area in south-west Delhi on Friday. While the man was admitted in a hospital with severe injuries, agitated locals later set the truck ablaze.
The accident was reported in the morning from pocket 12 of Jasola. Police reached the spot immediately, after which the bike borne man was rushed to the hospital and the crowd dispersed.
Residents there had been complaining about MCD trucks taking the residential lanes, due to construction work inside the Okhla treatment plant, for almost the past one-and-a-half years. ‘
Since the beginning of 2013, hundreds of MCD garbage trucks have been taking the residential roads at Jasola. The reason is that there has been some sort of road repair going in a half-kilometer-stretch near the Okhla treatment plant entrance,’ said Amar Singh, president of pocket 12 RWA in Jasola.
He further alleged that, it is the occupants of the government quarters near the Okhla treatment plant who had deliberately been using road repair as an excuse to divert the garbage trucks.
‘For this, the trucks have to take a detour and travel ten extra kilometers on a round trip. But still, the authorities haven’t looked after the issue,’ added Singh. Earlier this year, there were severe protests held by the residents of Jasola regarding this issue. They had even blocked the roads and sent letters to the Lieutenant-Governor. However, no action was taken even after their repeated requests.
‘After a protest in July this year, the concerned authority had also assured that the matter shall be solved within 15 days, which never happened,’ said a resident.
He further said, it is almost impossible for such trucks to move through the hardly 20-metre broad roads in the Jasola residential pockets. ‘Hence, they keep breaking walls and hitting parked cars frequently. It is also a severe threat to children playing on the roads and the elderly people taking walks there’, the resident added.
The accident was reported in the morning from pocket 12 of Jasola. Police reached the spot immediately, after which the bike borne man was rushed to the hospital and the crowd dispersed.
Residents there had been complaining about MCD trucks taking the residential lanes, due to construction work inside the Okhla treatment plant, for almost the past one-and-a-half years. ‘
Since the beginning of 2013, hundreds of MCD garbage trucks have been taking the residential roads at Jasola. The reason is that there has been some sort of road repair going in a half-kilometer-stretch near the Okhla treatment plant entrance,’ said Amar Singh, president of pocket 12 RWA in Jasola.
He further alleged that, it is the occupants of the government quarters near the Okhla treatment plant who had deliberately been using road repair as an excuse to divert the garbage trucks.
‘For this, the trucks have to take a detour and travel ten extra kilometers on a round trip. But still, the authorities haven’t looked after the issue,’ added Singh. Earlier this year, there were severe protests held by the residents of Jasola regarding this issue. They had even blocked the roads and sent letters to the Lieutenant-Governor. However, no action was taken even after their repeated requests.
‘After a protest in July this year, the concerned authority had also assured that the matter shall be solved within 15 days, which never happened,’ said a resident.
He further said, it is almost impossible for such trucks to move through the hardly 20-metre broad roads in the Jasola residential pockets. ‘Hence, they keep breaking walls and hitting parked cars frequently. It is also a severe threat to children playing on the roads and the elderly people taking walks there’, the resident added.